Name: Weissella fabalis Snauwaert et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fa.ba’lis. L. masc./fem. adj. fabalis, of or belonging to beans

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 61217; CCUG 61472; DSM 28407; LMG 26217; M75

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE576795 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Snauwaert I, Papalexandratou Z, De Vuyst L, Vandamme P. Characterization of strains of Weissella fabalis sp. nov. and Fructobacillus tropaeoli from spontaneous cocoa bean fermentations. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1709-1716.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Periweissella fabalis (Snauwaert et al. 2013) Bello et al. 2022

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Periweissella fabalis (Snauwaert et al. 2013) Bello et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Weissella fabalis 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.
  • 🧍 In the species description, the type strain CCUG 61472 is erroneously cited as CCUG 61217. — Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date, 2018-12-11.

Parent taxon: Weissella Collins et al. 1994

Assigned by: Snauwaert I, Papalexandratou Z, De Vuyst L, Vandamme P. Characterization of strains of Weissella fabalis sp. nov. and Fructobacillus tropaeoli from spontaneous cocoa bean fermentations. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1709-1716.

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Record number: 790716