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Genus Lacrimispora
Name: Lacrimispora Haas and Blanchard 2020
Etymology: La.cri.mi’spo.ra. L. fem. n. lacrima, a tear; Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed and, in biology, a spore; N.L. fem. n. Lacrimispora, a tear-shaped spore
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Lacrimispor-), la-kri-MI-spo-ra
Type species: Lacrimispora sphenoides (Douglas et al. 1919) Haas and Blanchard 2020
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Haas KN, Blanchard JL. Reclassification of the Clostridium clostridioforme and Clostridium sphenoides clades as Enterocloster gen. nov. and Lacrimispora gen. nov., including reclassification of 15 taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:23-34. 
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IJSEM list:
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.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Douglas SR, Fleming A, Colebrook L. Studies in wound infections. Medical Research Council (Great Britain) Special Report Series 1919; 57:1-159.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1923.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Desulfotomaculum Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gogotova GI, Vainstein MB. The sporogenous sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfotomaculum guttoideum sp. nov. Mikrobiologia 1983; 52:789-793.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 12; ATCC: 8; JCM: 5; NCTC: 3; CCUG: 2; LMG: 2; NCIMB: 2; MTCC: 2; MAFF: 1; KCTC: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 15
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Child taxa:
Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
Assigned by:
Haas KN, Blanchard JL. Reclassification of the Clostridium clostridioforme and Clostridium sphenoides clades as Enterocloster gen. nov. and Lacrimispora gen. nov., including reclassification of 15 taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:23-34. 🇺🇸
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Record number: 4941
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