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Species Clostridium cellobioparum

Name: Clostridium cellobioparum Hungate 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cel.lo.bi.o.pa’rum N.L. neut. n. cellobiosum, cellobiose; L. v. paro, to prepare, to provide; N.L. adj. suff. -parus, producing; N.L. neut. adj. cellobioparum, cellobiose-producing

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 15832; DSM 1351; LMG 5589

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16S rRNA gene: X71856 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Hungate RE. Studies on Cellulose Fermentation: I. The Culture and Physiology of an Anaerobic Cellulose-digesting Bacterium. J Bacteriol 1944; 48:499-513.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Ruminiclostridium cellobioparum (Hungate 1944) Zhang et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hungate RE. Studies on Cellulose Fermentation: I. The Culture and Physiology of an Anaerobic Cellulose-digesting Bacterium. J Bacteriol 1944; 48:499-513.

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