Name: Gardnerella vaginalis (Gardner and Dukes 1955) Greenwood and Pickett 1980

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Haemophilus vaginalis Gardner and Dukes 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: va.gi.na’lis. L. fem. n. vagina, sheath, vagina; L. masc./fem. adj. suff. -alis, suffix denoting pertaining to; N.L. masc./fem. adj. vaginalis, pertaining to vagina, of the vagina

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 594 of Gardner and Dukes; ATCC 14018; CCUG 3717; CIP 70.74; DSM 4944; Dukes 594; JCM 11026; LMG 7832; NCTC 10287; NCTC 10915

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB971820 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Greenwood JR, Pickett MJ. Transfer of Haemophilus vaginalis Gardner and Dukes to a new genus, Gardnerella: G. vaginalis (Gardner and Dukes) comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1980; 30:170-178.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Haemophilus vaginalis Gardner and Dukes 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Corynebacterium vaginale" (Gardner and Dukes 1955) Zinnemann and Turner 1963	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
  • Vaneechoutte et al. 2019 Vaneechoutte M, Guschin A, Van Simaey L, Gansemans Y, Van Nieuwerburgh F, Cools P. Emended description of Gardnerella vaginalis and description of Gardnerella leopoldii sp. nov., Gardnerella piotii sp. nov. and Gardnerella swidsinskii sp. nov., with delineation of 13 genomic species within the genus Gardnerella. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:679-687. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1529-1530.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Gardnerella Greenwood and Pickett 1980. Publication: Greenwood JR, Pickett MJ. Transfer of Haemophilus vaginalis Gardner and Dukes to a new genus, Gardnerella: G. vaginalis (Gardner and Dukes) comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1980; 30:170-178.
  • According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established 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: Gardnerella Greenwood and Pickett 1980

Assigned by: Greenwood JR, Pickett MJ. Transfer of Haemophilus vaginalis Gardner and Dukes to a new genus, Gardnerella: G. vaginalis (Gardner and Dukes) comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1980; 30:170-178.

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Record number: 776427