Name: Schaalia meyeri (Cato et al. 1984) Nouioui et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Actinomyces meyeri (ex Prévot 1938) Cato et al. 1984

Etymology: me’yer.i N.L. gen. masc. n. meyeri, of Meyer, to honor Kurt F. Meyer, a German bacteriologist, who described the organism as a “new anaerobic Streptothrix species” in 1911

Gender: feminine

Type strains: ATCC 35568; CCUG 21024; CIP 103148; DSM 20733; LMG 16161; Prévot 2477B; VPI 8617

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X82451 Analyse FASTA

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 184. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3379-3393.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Actinomyces meyeri (ex Prévot 1938) Cato et al. 1984	homotypic synonym, validly published

Parent taxon: Schaalia Nouioui et al. 2018

Assigned by: 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.

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