Genus Oribacterium

Name: Oribacterium Carlier et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: O.ri.bac.te’ri.um. L. gen. neut. n. oris, of the mouth; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; from Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, a small rod; N.L. neut. n. Oribacterium, small rod from the mouth, because all clone sequences originated from the mouth

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Oribacteri-), o-ri-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Oribacterium sinus Carlier et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Carlier JP, K'ouas G, Bonne I, Lozniewski A, Mory F. Oribacterium sinus gen. nov., sp. nov., within the family 'Lachnospiraceae' (phylum Firmicutes). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1611-1615. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Emendations:
- Sizova et al. 2014 Sizova MV, Muller PA, Stancyk D, Panikov NS, Mandalakis M, Hazen A, Hohmann T, Doerfert SN, Fowle W, Earl AM, et al. Oribacterium parvum sp. nov. and Oribacterium asaccharolyticum sp. nov., obligately anaerobic bacteria from the human oral cavity, and emended description of the genus Oribacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2642-2649. 🇺🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3607-3609.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Orabacterium"; "Oribabacterium".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 2; CIP: 1; CCUG: 1.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Oribacterium asaccharolyticum Sizova et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Oribacterium parvum Sizova et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Oribacterium sinus Carlier et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Assigned by: Rainey FA. Family V. Lachnospiraceae fam. nov. 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, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 921. 🇧🇪

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