Name: Vogesella mureinivorans Jørgensen et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: mu.re.i.ni.vo’rans. N.L. neut. n. mureinum, murein, cell wall; L. pres. part. vorans, eating, devouring; N.L. part. adj. mureinivorans, murein-devouring

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 389; DSM 21247; LMG 25302

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: GQ246809 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jorgensen NOG, Brandt KK, Nybroe O, Hansen M. Vogesella mureinivorans sp. nov., a peptidoglycan-degrading bacterium from lake water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2467-2472.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:4-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Lan et al. 2020 Lan K, Cai YM, Li LH, Zeng JM, Yu XG, Qu PH, Li HL, Liu YY, Chen L, Chen C, et al. Vogesella urethralis sp. nov., isolated from human urine, and emended descriptions of Vogesella perlucida and Vogesella mureinivorans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:624-630. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2167-2173.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Vogesella Grimes et al. 1997

Assigned by: Jorgensen NOG, Brandt KK, Nybroe O, Hansen M. Vogesella mureinivorans sp. nov., a peptidoglycan-degrading bacterium from lake water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2467-2472.

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