Name: Alloscardovia venturai Sechovcová et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ven.tu.ra’i. N.L. gen. masc. n. venturai, of Ventura, named after Professor Marco Ventura, in recognition of his genetic research on bifidobacteria

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCM 8604; DSM 100237; LMG 28781; MOZIV/2

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16S rRNA gene: KT343144 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sechovcova H, Killer J, Pechar R, Geigerova M, Svejstil R, Salmonova H, Mekadim C, Rada V, Vlkova E, Kofronova O, et al. Alloscardovia venturai sp. nov., a fructose 6-phosphate phosphoketolase-positive species isolated from the oral cavity of a guinea-pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2842-2847.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4294-4297.

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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Alloscardovia Huys et al. 2007

Assigned by: Sechovcova H, Killer J, Pechar R, Geigerova M, Svejstil R, Salmonova H, Mekadim C, Rada V, Vlkova E, Kofronova O, et al. Alloscardovia venturai sp. nov., a fructose 6-phosphate phosphoketolase-positive species isolated from the oral cavity of a guinea-pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2842-2847.

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Record number: 795642