Class Clostridia
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Clostridia Rainey 2010, class. nov.
Type order: ¤ Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Clostridium, type genus of the type order of the class; suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Clostridia, the Clostridium class.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 132. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 469-472.
Effective publication: RAINEY (F.A.): Class II. Clostridia class nov. In: P. DE VOS, G.M. GARRITY, D. JONES, N.R. KRIEG, W. LUDWIG, F.A. RAINEY, K.H. SCHLEIFER and W.B. WHITMAN (editors): Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York, 2009, p. 736.
Validation List no. 132 in IJSEM Online
