Species ***Prevotella* *timonensis***

Classification:

Bacteria Pseudomonadati Bacteroidota Bacteroidia Bacteroidales Prevotellaceae Prevotella Prevotella timonensis

Name: Prevotella timonensis Glazunova et al. 2007

Category, proposed as: species, sp. nov.

Etymology: ti.mo.nen’sis. N.L. fem. adj. timonensis, from the name Hôpital de la Timone, the hospital in Marseille, France, from where the type strain was isolated

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pre-wo-TEL-la ti-mo-NEN-sis, feminine

Type strain: 4401737; CCUG 50105; CIP 108522; DSM 22865; JCM 15640; NCTC 14059

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB547706 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Glazunova OO, Launay T, Raoult D, Roux V. Prevotella timonensis sp. nov., isolated from a human breast abscess. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:883-886. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1374-1375.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Hoylesella timonensis (Glazunova 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:
  - 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+". — 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 42 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative 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. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990

Assigned by: Glazunova OO, Launay T, Raoult D, Roux V. Prevotella timonensis sp. nov., isolated from a human breast abscess. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:883-886. 🇫🇷

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