Name: Pseudoscardovia suis Killer et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: su’is. L. masc./fem. n. sus, pig; L. gen. masc./fem. n. suis, of a pig

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCM 7942; DPTE4; DSM 24744

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ842701 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Killer J, Mrazek J, Bunesova V, Havlik J, Koppova I, Benada O, Rada V, Kopecny J, Vlkova E. Pseudoscardovia suis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of wild pigs (Sus scrofa). Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:11-16.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 159. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2927-2929.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Pseudoscardovia Killer et al. 2014. Publication: Killer J, Mrazek J, Bunesova V, Havlik J, Koppova I, Benada O, Rada V, Kopecny J, Vlkova E. Pseudoscardovia suis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of wild pigs (Sus scrofa). Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:11-16.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Pseudoscardovia Killer et al. 2014

Assigned by: Killer J, Mrazek J, Bunesova V, Havlik J, Koppova I, Benada O, Rada V, Kopecny J, Vlkova E. Pseudoscardovia suis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Bifidobacteriaceae isolated from the digestive tract of wild pigs (Sus scrofa). Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:11-16.

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