Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Clostridium disporicum

Name: Clostridium disporicum Horn 1987

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: di.spo.ri.cum. Gr. adv. dis, two; Gr. masc. n. sporos, seed; L. neut. adj. suff. -icum, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; N.L. neut. adj. disporicum, pertaining to two spores

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 43838; DS1; DSM 5521; NCIB 12424; NCIMB 12424

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16S rRNA gene: Y18176 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Horn N. Clostridium disporicum sp. nov., a saccharolytic species able to form two spores per cell, isolated from a rat cecum. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1987; 37:398-401.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Horn N. Clostridium disporicum sp. nov., a saccharolytic species able to form two spores per cell, isolated from a rat cecum. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1987; 37:398-401.

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Record number: 774869
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