Victivallis
| Victivallis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Lentisphaerota |
| Class: | Lentisphaeria |
| Order: | Victivallales Cho et al. 2004 |
| Family: | Victivallaceae Derrien et al. 2012 |
| Genus: | Victivallis Zoetendal et al. 2003[1] |
| Type species | |
| Victivallis vadensis Zoetendal et al. 2003 | |
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Victivallis is a genus of strictly anaerobic bacteria, the only genus in the family Victivallaceae and order Victivallales.[1] The genus contains two species with validly published names: Victivallis lenta and the type species, Victivallis vadensis.[1] Both species have been isolated from mammalian intestinal-associated samples.[2][3]
Characteristics
The type strain of V. vadensis was isolated from human feces. Its cells are non-motile, coccoid, and surrounded by an extracellular slime layer. It grows strictly anaerobically by fermenting sugars, including cellobiose. During growth on glucose, it produces acetate, ethanol, and molecular hydrogen.[2]
Victivallis lenta was isolated from the feces of a minipig. Under anaerobic culture conditions, it consumed glucose and produced primarily acetate, together with smaller amounts of lactate and formate. Genomic analysis identified starch, cellulose, and fructan as potential carbohydrate substrates.[3]
Taxonomy and etymology
Victivallis is the nomenclatural type genus of both the family Victivallaceae and the order Victivallales.[1] The generic name combines the Latin words victus, meaning food, and vallis, meaning valley. It refers to the Wageningen “Food Valley” region of the Netherlands, where the type species was studied.[2][1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Genus: Victivallis". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- 1 2 3 Zoetendal, Erwin G.; Plugge, Caroline M.; Akkermans, Antoon D. L.; de Vos, Willem M. (2003). "Victivallis vadensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a sugar-fermenting anaerobe from human faeces". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (Pt 1): 211–215. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02362-0. PMID 12656175.
- 1 2 Wylensek, David; Hitch, Thomas C. A.; Riedel, Thomas; et al. (2020). "A collection of bacterial isolates from the pig intestine reveals functional and taxonomic diversity". Nature Communications. 11 (1) 6389. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19929-w. PMC 7732864. PMID 33311554.