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Name: Cardiobacterium Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: Car.di.o.bac.te.ri.um. Gr. fem. n. kardia, heart; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, small rod; N.L. neut. n. Cardiobacterium, bacterium of the heart
Gender: neuter (stem: Cardiobacteri-)
Type species: Cardiobacterium hominis Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Slotnick IJ, Dougherty M. FURTHER CHARACTERIZATION OF AN UNCLASSIFIED GROUP OF BACTERIA CAUSING ENDOCARDITIS IN MAN: CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS GEN. ET SP. N. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1964; 30:261-272.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
---|---|---|
Cardiobacterium hominis Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980) | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Cardiobacterium valvarum Han et al. 2004 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Parent taxon: Cardiobacteriaceae Dewhirst et al. 1990
Assigned by:
Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, La Fontaine S, Rood JI. Transfer of Kingella indologenes (Snell and Lapage 1976) to the genus Suttonella gen. nov. as Suttonella indologenes comb. nov.; transfer of Bacteroides nodosus (Beveridge 1941) to the genus Dichelobacter gen. nov. as Dichelobacter nodosus comb. nov.; and assignment of the genera Cardiobacterium, Dichelobacter, and Suttonella to Cardiobacteriaceae fam. nov. in the gamma division of Proteobacteria on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:426-433.
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Record number: 515312