Name: Cloacibacillus porcorum Looft et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: por.co’rum. L. masc. n. porcus, swine, pig; L. gen. masc. pl. n. porcorum, of/from pigs

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 62631; CL-84; DSM 25858

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16S rRNA gene: JQ809697 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Looft T, Levine UY, Stanton TB. Cloacibacillus porcorum sp. nov., a mucin-degrading bacterium from the swine intestinal tract and emended description of the genus Cloacibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1960-1966.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3135-3137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Cloacibacillus Ganesan et al. 2008

Assigned by: Looft T, Levine UY, Stanton TB. Cloacibacillus porcorum sp. nov., a mucin-degrading bacterium from the swine intestinal tract and emended description of the genus Cloacibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1960-1966.

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Record number: 790853