Name: Tatumella saanichensis Tracz et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sa.a.ni.chen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. saanichensis, pertaining to the Saanich municipality of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, the source of the type strain

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 55408; DSM 19846; NML 6-3099

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU215774 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tracz DM, Gilmour MW, Mabon P, Beniac DR, Hoang L, Kibsey P, Van Domselaar G, Tabor H, Westmacott GR, Corbett CR, et al. Tatumella saanichensis sp. nov., isolated from a cystic fibrosis patient. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1959-1966.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2784-2785.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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.

Parent taxon: Tatumella Hollis et al. 1982

Assigned by: Tracz DM, Gilmour MW, Mabon P, Beniac DR, Hoang L, Kibsey P, Van Domselaar G, Tabor H, Westmacott GR, Corbett CR, et al. Tatumella saanichensis sp. nov., isolated from a cystic fibrosis patient. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1959-1966.

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Record number: 792867