Name: Metaclostridioides Bello et al. 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.ta.clos.tri.di.o’i.des. Gr. adv. meta, besides; N.L. neut. n. Clostridioides, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. n. Metaclostridioides, a genus besides Clostridioides

Gender: neuter (stem: Metaclostridioid-)

Type species: Metaclostridioides mangenotii (Prévot and Zimmès-Chaverou 1947) Bello et al. 2024

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bello S, McQuay S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Robust demarcation of the family Peptostreptococcaceae and its main genera based on phylogenomic studies and taxon-specific molecular markers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6247.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (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 species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Clostridioides Lawson et al. 2016. Publication: Lawson PA, Citron DM, Tyrrell KL, Finegold SM. Reclassification of Clostridium difficile as Clostridioides difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Prevot 1938. Anaerobe 2016; 40:95-99.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Inflabilis" Prévot 1938. Publication: Prévot AR, Zimmès-Chaverou J. Étude d'une nouvelle espèce anaérobie de Côte d'Ivoire : Inflabilis mangenoti. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1947; 73:602-604.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; ATCC: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Metaclostridioides mangenotii (Prévot and Zimmès-Chaverou 1947) Bello et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010

Assigned by: Bello S, McQuay S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Robust demarcation of the family Peptostreptococcaceae and its main genera based on phylogenomic studies and taxon-specific molecular markers. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6247.

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