Name: Weeksella massiliensis Sankar et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mas.si.li.en’sis. L. masc./fem. adj. massiliensis, of Massilia, the Latin name for Marseille, where strain FF8T was cultivated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CSUR P860; DSM 28259; FF8

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HG931340 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Sankar SA, Lo CI, Fall B, Sambe-Ba B, Mediannikov O, Diallo I, Labas N, Faye N, Wade B, Raoult D, et al. Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Weeksella massiliensis sp. nov. New Microbes New Infect 2015; 8:89-98.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 176. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2075-2078.

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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Weeksella Holmes et al. 1987

Assigned by: Sankar SA, Lo CI, Fall B, Sambe-Ba B, Mediannikov O, Diallo I, Labas N, Faye N, Wade B, Raoult D, et al. Noncontiguous finished genome sequence and description of Weeksella massiliensis sp. nov. New Microbes New Infect 2015; 8:89-98.

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Record number: 795593