Species ***Prevotella* *ruminicola***

Name: Prevotella ruminicola (Bryant et al. 1958) Shah and Collins 1990

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacteroides ruminicola Bryant et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: ru.mi.ni’co.la. L. neut. n. rumen (gen. ruminis), first stomach of ruminants, rumen; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, inhabitant, deweller; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, dweller; N.L. masc./fem. n. ruminicola, inhabitant of the rumen

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pre-wo-TEL-la ru-mi-NI-ko-la, feminine

Type strain: ATCC 19189; Bryant 23; CIP 105475; DSM 19721; JCM 8958

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: L16482 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Shah HN, Collins DM. Prevotella, a new genus to include Bacteroides melaninogenicus and related species formerly classified in the genus Bacteroides. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:205-208. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Xylanibacter ruminicola (Bryant et al. 1958) Hitch et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Bacteroides ruminicola Bryant et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Ruminobacter ruminicola" (Bryant et al. 1958) Prévot 1966	homotypic synonym, not validly published

Emendations:
- Avguštin et al. 1997 Avgustin G, Wallace RJ, Flint HJ. Phenotypic diversity among ruminal isolates of Prevotella ruminicola: proposal of Prevotella brevis sp. nov., Prevotella bryantii sp. nov., and Prevotella albensis sp. nov. and redefinition of Prevotella ruminicola. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:284-288. 🇬🇧 Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.
- García-López et al. 2019 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. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "human pathogen". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2. — 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 186 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 species itself.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Prevotella ruminicola subsp. brevis (Bryant et al. 1958) Shah and Collins 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Prevotella ruminicola subsp. ruminicola (Bryant et al. 1958) Shah and Collins 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym of its species

Parent taxon: Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990

Assigned by: Shah HN, Collins DM. Prevotella, a new genus to include Bacteroides melaninogenicus and related species formerly classified in the genus Bacteroides. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:205-208. 🇬🇧

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Species ***Prevotella* *ruminicola***