Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

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: correct name

Risk group: 1

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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