Etymology:Clos.tri.di.a’ce.ae.N.L. neut. dim. n.Clostridium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff.-aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n.Clostridiaceae, the Clostridium family
heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Emendations:
Spring 2020
Spring S. Thermohalobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Oren A (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Wiley, Unknown City, 2020, p. 1-8. 🇩🇪 Notes:
⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 7 genera from the family.
🧍 As of 2022-06-16 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.
Notes:
🧕 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this family to the order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Wiegel J. Family I. Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933, 90 AL. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, volume 3, The Firmicutes, Springer, New York, 2009, p. 738-848. 🇧🇪
🧒 Ben-Hania et al. (2015) assigned the genus Caldisalinibacter Ben Hania et al. 2015 to this family.Publication:
Ben Hania W, Joseph M, Fiebig A, Bunk B, Klenk H-P, Fardeau M-L, Spring S. Caldisalinibacter kiritimatiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermohalophilic thiosulfate-reducing bacterium from a hypersaline microbial mat. Geomicrobiol J 2015; 32:347-354. 🇩🇪
🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Acetivibrio Patel et al. 1980 to this family.Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Sporobacter Grech-Mora et al. 1996 to this family.Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
🧒 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned the genus Caloranaerobacter Wery et al. 2001 to this family.Publication:
Wiegel J. Family I. Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933, 90 AL. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, volume 3, The Firmicutes, Springer, New York, 2009, p. 738-848. 🇧🇪
🧒 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned the genus Natronincola corrig. Zhilina et al. 1999 to this family.Publication:
Wiegel J. Family I. Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933, 90 AL. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, volume 3, The Firmicutes, Springer, New York, 2009, p. 738-848. 🇧🇪
🧒 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned the genus Thermohalobacter Cayol et al. 2000 to this family.Publication:
Wiegel J. Family I. Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933, 90 AL. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, volume 3, The Firmicutes, Springer, New York, 2009, p. 738-848. 🇧🇪
🧒 Fang et al. (2012) assigned the genus Brassicibacter Fang et al. 2012 to this family.Publication:
Fang MX, Zhang WW, Zhang YZ, Tan HQ, Zhang XQ, Wu M, Zhu XF. Brassicibacter mesophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium isolated from food industry wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:3018-3023. 🇨🇳
🧒 Gerritsen et al. (2014) assigned the genus Romboutsia Gerritsen et al. 2014 to this family.Publication:
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱
🧒 Gerritsen et al. (2014) assigned the genus Intestinibacter Gerritsen et al. 2014 to this family.Publication:
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱
🧒 Gerritsen et al. (2014) assigned the genus Terrisporobacter Gerritsen et al. 2014 to this family.Publication:
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱
🧒 Gerritsen et al. (2014) assigned the genus Asaccharospora Gerritsen et al. 2014 to this family.Publication:
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱
🧒 Huang et al. (2013) assigned the genus Keratinibaculum Huang et al. 2015 to this family.Publication:
Huang Y, Sun Y, Ma S, Chen L, Zhang H, Deng Y. Isolation and characterization of Keratinibaculum paraultunense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium with keratinolytic activity. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2013; 345:56-63. 🇨🇳
🧒 Liebgott et al. (2008) assigned the genus Clostridiisalibacter Liebgott et al. 2008 to this family.Publication:
Liebgott PP, Joseph M, Fardeau ML, Cayol JL, Falsen E, Chamkh F, Qatibi AI, Labat M. Clostridiisalibacter paucivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from olive mill wastewater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:61-67. 🇫🇷
🧒 Mei et al. (2016) assigned the genus Anaerovirgula Pikuta et al. 2006 to this family.Publication:
Mei N, Postec A, Erauso G, Joseph M, Pelletier B, Payri C, Ollivier B, Quemeneur M. Serpentinicella alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from the serpentinite-hosted Prony hydrothermal field, New Caledonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4464-4470. 🇫🇷
🧒 Mei et al. (2016) assigned the genus Serpentinicella Mei et al. 2016 to this family.Publication:
Mei N, Postec A, Erauso G, Joseph M, Pelletier B, Payri C, Ollivier B, Quemeneur M. Serpentinicella alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from the serpentinite-hosted Prony hydrothermal field, New Caledonia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4464-4470. 🇫🇷
🧒 Miranda-Tello et al. (2003) assigned the genus Garciella Miranda-Tello et al. 2003 to this family.Publication:
Miranda-Tello E, Fardeau ML, Sepulveda J, Fernandez L, Cayol JL, Thomas P, Ollivier B. Garciella nitratireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, nitrate- and thiosulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from an oilfield separator in the Gulf of Mexico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1509-1514. 🇫🇷
🧒 Mourembou et al. (2015) assigned the genus "Beduini" Mourembou et al. 2015 to this family.Publication:
Mourembou G, Yasir M, Azhar EI, Lagier JC, Bibi F, Jiman-Fatani AA, Helmy N, Robert C, Rathored J, Fournier PE, et al. Rise of Microbial Culturomics: Noncontiguous Finished Genome Sequence and Description of Beduini massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov. OMICS 2015; 19:766-776. 🇫🇷
🧒 Pribram (1933) assigned the genus "Erysipelatoclostridium" to this family.Publication:
Pribram E. Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1933.
🧒 Pribram (1933) assigned the genus "Tyzzerella" to this family.Publication:
Pribram E. Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1933.
🧒 Rezgui et al. (2011) assigned the genus Sporosalibacterium Rezgui et al. 2011 to this family.Publication:
Rezgui R, Ben Ali Gam Z, Ben Hamed S, Fardeau ML, Cayol JL, Maaroufi A, Labat M. Sporosalibacterium faouarense gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:99-104. 🇫🇷
🧒 Rezgui et al. (2012) assigned the genus Anaerosalibacter Rezgui et al. 2012 to this family.Publication:
Rezgui R, Maaroufi A, Fardeau ML, Ben Ali Gam Z, Cayol JL, Ben Hamed S, Labat M. Anaerosalibacter bizertensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from sludge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2469-2474. 🇫🇷
🧒 Sasi-Jyothsna et al. (2016) assigned the genus Paraclostridium Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016 to this family.Publication:
Sasi Jyothsna TS, Tushar L, Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Paraclostridium benzoelyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment and reclassification of Clostridium bifermentans as Paraclostridium bifermentans comb. nov. Proposal of a new genus Paeniclostridium gen. nov. to accommodate Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium ghonii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1268-1274. 🇮🇳
🧒 Sasi-Jyothsna et al. (2016) assigned the genus Paeniclostridium Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016 to this family.Publication:
Sasi Jyothsna TS, Tushar L, Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Paraclostridium benzoelyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment and reclassification of Clostridium bifermentans as Paraclostridium bifermentans comb. nov. Proposal of a new genus Paeniclostridium gen. nov. to accommodate Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium ghonii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1268-1274. 🇮🇳
🧒 Slobodkin et al. (2006) assigned the genus Tepidimicrobium Slobodkin et al. 2006 to this family.Publication:
Slobodkin AI, Tourova TP, Kostrikina NA, Lysenko AM, German KE, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Birkeland NK. Tepidimicrobium ferriphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic, Fe(III)-reducing bacterium of the order Clostridiales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:369-372. 🇷🇺
🧒 Thompson et al. (2012) assigned the genus "Candidatus Savagella" Thompson et al. 2012 to this family.Publication:
Thompson CL, Vier R, Mikaelyan A, Wienemann T, Brune A. 'CandidatusArthromitus' revised: segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae. Environ Microbiol 2012; 14:1454-1465. 🇩🇪
🧒 Traore et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Senegalia" Traore et al. 2016 to this family.Publication:
Traore SI, Cadoret F, Fournier PE, Raoult D. "Senegalia massiliensis," a new bacterium isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract. New Microbes New Infect 2016; 12:88-89. 🇫🇷
🧒 Traore et al. (2017) assigned the genus "Bacilliculturomica" Traore et al. 2017 to this family.Publication:
Traore SI, Azhar EI, Yasir M, Bibi F, Fournier PE, Jiman-Fatani AA, Delerce J, Cadoret F, Lagier JC, Raoult D. Description of 'Arabia massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., 'Gordonibacter massiliensis' sp. nov., and 'Bacilliculturomica massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a faecal specimen of a 50-year-old Saudi Bedouin woman. New Microbes New Infect 2017; 19:87-90. 🇫🇷
🧒 Traore et al. (2017) assigned the genus "Massilimaliae" Traore et al. 2017 to this family.Publication:
Traore SI, Azhar EI, Yasir M, Bibi F, Fournier PE, Jiman-Fatani AA, Delerce J, Cadoret F, Lagier JC, Raoult D. Description of 'Beduinibacterium massiliense' gen. nov., sp. nov., 'Massilimaliae massiliensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., 'Provencibacterium massiliense' gen. nov., sp. nov. and 'Oscilibacter massiliensis' sp. nov., isolated from a faecal specimen of a 19-year-old healthy Saudi Arabian Bedouin by culturomics. New Microbes New Infect 2017; 19:78-82. 🇫🇷
🧒 Watthanalamloet et al. (2012) assigned the genus Cellulosibacter Watthanalamloet et al. 2012 to this family.Publication:
Watthanalamloet A, Tachaapaikoon C, Lee YS, Kosugi A, Mori Y, Tanasupawat S, Kyu KL, Ratanakhanokchai K. Cellulosibacter alkalithermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic alkalithermophilic, cellulolytic-xylanolytic bacterium isolated from soil of a coconut garden. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2330-2335. 🇹🇭
🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Butyricicoccus Eeckhaut et al. 2008 to this family.Publication:
Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Saccharofermentans Chen et al. 2010 to this family.Publication:
Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
🧒 Zakharyuk et al. (2017) assigned the genus Alkaliphilus Takai et al. 2001 to this family.Publication:
Zakharyuk A, Kozyreva L, Ariskina E, Troshina O, Kopitsyn D, Shcherbakova V. Alkaliphilus namsaraevii sp. nov., an alkaliphilic iron- and sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from a steppe soda lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1990-1995. 🇷🇺
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Erisaceae" Hildebrand et al. 2019.Publication:
Hildebrand F, Moitinho-Silva L, Blasche S, Jahn MT, Gossmann TI, Huerta-Cepas J, Hercog R, Luetge M, Bahram M, Pryszlak A, et al. Antibiotics-induced monodominance of a novel gut bacterial order. Gut 2019; 68:1781-1790. 🇩🇪
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Final Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1920; 5:191-229.
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Spray RS. Genus II. Clostridium Prazmowski. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 763-827.
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
McClung LS, McCoy E. Genus II. Clostridium Prazmowski 1880. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, seventh edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 634-693.
🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Waksman SA. Genus III. Actinomyces Harz,. In: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1923, p. 339-371.
🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Coprobacillaceae Verbarg et al. 2020.Publication:
Lawson PA, Saavedra Perez L, Sankaranarayanan K. Reclassification of Clostridium cocleatum, Clostridium ramosum, Clostridium spiroforme and Clostridium saccharogumia as Thomasclavelia cocleata gen. nov., comb. nov., Thomasclavelia ramosa comb. nov., gen. nov., Thomasclavelia spiroformis comb. nov. and Thomasclavelia saccharogumia comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2023; 73:0. 🇺🇸
🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010.Publication:
Brahimi S, Cadoret F, Fournier PE, Moal V, Raoult D. 'Lachnoclostridium urinimassiliense' sp. nov. and 'Lachnoclostridium phocaeense' sp. nov., two new bacterial species isolated from human urine after kidney transplantation. New Microbes New Infect 2017; 16:73-75. 🇫🇷
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Closlridiaceae"; "Clostriadaceae"; "Clostricliaceae"; "Clostridicaceae".
🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.03938 (N = 2).
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 336; ATCC: 209; JCM: 153; CCUG: 65; CIP: 52; KCTC: 51; NCTC: 49; NCIMB: 49; CSUR: 35; BCRC: 33.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 36 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 37 Total number of child taxa: 64
Assigned by:
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱
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