Species Clostridium glycolicum

Name: Clostridium glycolicum Gaston and Stadtman 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gly.co’li.cum. N.L. neut. n. glycol, glycol; L. neut. adj. suff. -icum, suffix used with the sense of related to, belonging to; N.L. neut. adj. glycolicum, pertaining to glycol, referring to the ability to ferment ethylene glycol

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 14880; DSM 1288; JCM 1401; NCIB 10632; NCIMB 10632; NCTC 13026

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16S rRNA gene: X76750 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gaston LW, Stadtman ER. Fermentation of ethylene glycol by Clostridium glycolicum, sp. n. J Bacteriol 1963; 85:356-362.

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: Terrisporobacter glycolicus (Gaston and Stadtman 1963) Gerritsen et al. 2014

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Terrisporobacter glycolicus (Gaston and Stadtman 1963) Gerritsen et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Chamkha et al. 2001 Chamkha M, Labat M, Patel BK, Garcia JL. Isolation of a cinnamic acid-metabolizing Clostridium glycolicum strain from oil mill wastewaters and emendation of the species description. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:2049-2054. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:5-6.

Notes:
- Clostridium glycolicum 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: Gaston LW, Stadtman ER. Fermentation of ethylene glycol by Clostridium glycolicum, sp. n. J Bacteriol 1963; 85:356-362.

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Record number: 774887

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