Name: Proteiniphilum saccharofermentans Hahnke et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sac.cha.ro.fer.men’tans. Gr. neut. n. sakchar, sugar; L. pres. part. fermentans, fermenting; N.L. part. adj. saccharofermentans, sugar-fermenting

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CECT 8610; DSM 28694; LMG 28299; M3/6

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP233809 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hahnke S, Langer T, Koeck DE, Klocke M. Description of Proteiniphilum saccharofermentans sp. nov., Petrimonas mucosa sp. nov. and Fermentimonas caenicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from mesophilic laboratory-scale biogas reactors, and emended description of the genus Proteiniphilum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1466-1475.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2126-2128.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • 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 Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Proteiniphilum Chen and Dong 2005

Assigned by: Hahnke S, Langer T, Koeck DE, Klocke M. Description of Proteiniphilum saccharofermentans sp. nov., Petrimonas mucosa sp. nov. and Fermentimonas caenicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from mesophilic laboratory-scale biogas reactors, and emended description of the genus Proteiniphilum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1466-1475.

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