Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Clostridium grantii

Name: Clostridium grantii Mountfort et al. 1996

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: grant’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. grantii, of Grant, named after William Donaldson Grant for his contribution to our understanding of marine polysaccharide degradation

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CIP 105529; DSM 8605; Strain A-1

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16S rRNA gene: X75272 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mountfort DO, Rainey FA, Burghardt J, Stackebrandt E. Clostridium grantii sp. nov., a new obligately anaerobic, alginolytic bacterium isolated from mullet gut. Arch Microbiol 1994; 162:173-179.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 57. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:625-626.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Mountfort DO, Rainey FA, Burghardt J, Stackebrandt E. Clostridium grantii sp. nov., a new obligately anaerobic, alginolytic bacterium isolated from mullet gut. Arch Microbiol 1994; 162:173-179.

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Record number: 774889
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