Name: Porphyromonas pogonae Kawamura et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: po.go.nae. N.L. fem. n. pogona, the genus name for lizards of the species Pogona vitticeps; N.L. gen. fem. n. pogonae, of Pogona vitticeps

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2643; JCM 19732; MI 10-1288; PAGU 1787

16S rRNA gene: HM583587 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kawamura Y, Kuwabara S, Kania SA, Kato H, Hamagishi M, Fujiwara N, Sato T, Tomida J, Tanaka K, Bemis DA. Porphyromonas pogonae sp. nov., an anaerobic but low concentration oxygen adapted coccobacillus isolated from lizards (Pogona vitticeps) or human clinical specimens, and emended description of the genus Porphyromonas Shah and Collins 1988. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:104-109. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 164. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2017-2025.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.

Parent taxon: Porphyromonas Shah and Collins 1988

Assigned by: Kawamura Y, Kuwabara S, Kania SA, Kato H, Hamagishi M, Fujiwara N, Sato T, Tomida J, Tanaka K, Bemis DA. Porphyromonas pogonae sp. nov., an anaerobic but low concentration oxygen adapted coccobacillus isolated from lizards (Pogona vitticeps) or human clinical specimens, and emended description of the genus Porphyromonas Shah and Collins 1988. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:104-109. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 792983