Species Clostridium aurantibutyricum

Name: Clostridium aurantibutyricum Hellinger 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au.ran.ti.bu.ty.ri.cum. N.L. masc. adj. aurantius, orange; N.L. neut. n. acidum butyricum, butyric acid; N.L. neut. adj. aurantibutyricum, probably intended to mean the orange-colored organism producing butyric acid

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 17777; CIP 104305; DSM 793

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16S rRNA gene: FJ358641 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hellinger E. Studies on a pink butyric acid Clostridium. Commemorative Volume to Dr. Weizmann's 70th Birthday. Daniel Sieff Research Institute, Rehovoth/Palestine, 1944.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Clostridium felsineum (Carbone and Tombolato 1917) Bergey et al. 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacillus felsineus" Carbone and Tombolato 1917	heterotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Clostridium roseum (ex McCoy and McClung 1935) Cato et al. 1988	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Clostridium felsineum (Carbone and Tombolato 1917) Bergey et al. 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- According to Schoch et al. (2022), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of "Bacillus felsineus" Carbone and Tombolato 1917. Publication: Schoch T, Hofele F, Odeh H, Winter LM, Stoferle S, Karl M, Bengelsdorf F, Poehlein A, Daniel R, Durre P. Reclassification of Clostridium aurantibutyricum Hellinger 1944 and Clostridium roseum (ex McCoy and McClung 1935) Cato et al. 1988. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5589.
- According to Schoch et al. (2022), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Clostridium felsineum (Carbone and Tombolato 1917) Bergey et al. 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Schoch T, Hofele F, Odeh H, Winter LM, Stoferle S, Karl M, Bengelsdorf F, Poehlein A, Daniel R, Durre P. Reclassification of Clostridium aurantibutyricum Hellinger 1944 and Clostridium roseum (ex McCoy and McClung 1935) Cato et al. 1988. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5589.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5736.
- Clostridium aurantibutyricum is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Clostridium.

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hellinger E. Studies on a pink butyric acid Clostridium. Commemorative Volume to Dr. Weizmann's 70th Birthday. Daniel Sieff Research Institute, Rehovoth/Palestine, 1944.

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Record number: 774830

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