Name: Cellulosilyticum lentocellum (Murray et al. 1987) Cai and Dong 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Clostridium lentocellum Murray et al. 1987

Etymology: len.to.cel’lum. L. masc. adj. lentus, slow; N.L. neut. n. cellulosum, cellulose; N.L. neut. adj. lentocellum, intended to mean slowly fermenting cellulose

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 49066; DSM 5427; NCIB 11756; NCIMB 11756; RHM5

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X71851 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Cai S, Dong X. Cellulosilyticum ruminicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of yak, and reclassification of Clostridium lentocellum as Cellulosilyticum lentocellum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:845-849.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Clostridium lentocellum Murray et al. 1987	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07363 (N = 73).
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Cellulosilyticum Cai and Dong 2010

Assigned by: Cai S, Dong X. Cellulosilyticum ruminicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of yak, and reclassification of Clostridium lentocellum as Cellulosilyticum lentocellum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:845-849.

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Record number: 788459