Species ***Prevotella* *copri***

Classification:

Bacteria Pseudomonadati Bacteroidota Bacteroidia Bacteroidales Prevotellaceae Prevotella Prevotella copri

Name: Prevotella copri Hayashi et al. 2007

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: co’pri. N.L. gen. masc. n. copri, [probably better: copronis]; from Gr. masc. n. koprôn, of/from faeces

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pre-wo-TEL-la KO-pri, feminine

Type strain: CB 7; DSM 18205; JCM 13464

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB649279 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hayashi H, Shibata K, Sakamoto M, Tomita S, Benno Y. Prevotella copri sp. nov. and Prevotella stercorea sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:941-946. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Segatella copri (Hayashi et al. 2007) Hitch et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.

Notes:
- 😩 Deposits incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: JCM 13646; JCM 14646.
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 487 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 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 genus.
- 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990

Assigned by: Hayashi H, Shibata K, Sakamoto M, Tomita S, Benno Y. Prevotella copri sp. nov. and Prevotella stercorea sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:941-946. 🇯🇵

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