Name: Propionibacterium namnetense Aubin et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: nam.ne.ten’se. L. neut. adj. namnetense, of Namnetum the Latin name of Nantes, France, where the organism was originally isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CCUG 66358; DSM 29427; NTS 31307302

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM507346 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Aubin GG, Bemer P, Kambarev S, Patel NB, Lemenand O, Caillon J, Lawson PA, Corvec S. Propionibacterium namnetense sp. nov., isolated from a human bone infection. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3393-3399.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cutibacterium namnetense (Aubin et al. 2016) Nouioui et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cutibacterium namnetense (Aubin et al. 2016) Nouioui et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Propionibacterium namnetense is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Propionibacterium.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 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 2022; 168:0.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Propionibacterium Orla-Jensen 1909 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Aubin GG, Bemer P, Kambarev S, Patel NB, Lemenand O, Caillon J, Lawson PA, Corvec S. Propionibacterium namnetense sp. nov., isolated from a human bone infection. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3393-3399.

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