Name: Weissella beninensis Padonou et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ben.in.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. beninensis, of or pertaining to Benin, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 2L24P13; DSM 22752; JCM 18047; LMG 25373

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU439435 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Padonou SW, Schillinger U, Nielsen DS, Franz CM, Hansen M, Hounhouigan JD, Nago MC, Jakobsen M. Weissella beninensis sp. nov., a motile lactic acid bacterium from submerged cassava fermentations, and emended description of the genus Weissella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2193-2198.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2695-2696.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Periweissella beninensis (Padonou et al. 2010) Bello et al. 2022

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Periweissella beninensis (Padonou et al. 2010) Bello et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Weissella beninensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Weissella.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Weissella Collins et al. 1994

Assigned by: Padonou SW, Schillinger U, Nielsen DS, Franz CM, Hansen M, Hounhouigan JD, Nago MC, Jakobsen M. Weissella beninensis sp. nov., a motile lactic acid bacterium from submerged cassava fermentations, and emended description of the genus Weissella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2193-2198.

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Record number: 788738