Species Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum

Name: Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum Zhang et al. 1994

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hy.dro.xy.ben.zo’i.cum N.L. neut. n. acidum hydroxybenzoicum, hydroxybenzoic acid; N.L. neut. adj. hydroxybenzoicum, pertaining to hydroxybenzoic acid, referring to the characteristic feature of this organism, the reversible decarboxylation of 4-hydroxybenzoate and 3, 4-dibydroxybenzoate

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 51151; DSM 7310; JW/Z-1

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16S rRNA gene: L11305 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang X, Mandelco L, Wiegel J. Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum sp. nov., an amino acid-utilizing, hydroxybenzoate-decarboxylating bacterium isolated from methanogenic freshwater pond sediment. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:214-222.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:596.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Sedimentibacter hydroxybenzoicus (Zhang et al. 1994) Breitenstein et al. 2002

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Sedimentibacter hydroxybenzoicus (Zhang et al. 1994) Breitenstein et al. 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published

Notes:
- The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
- Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species within a separate genus Clostridium.

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Zhang X, Mandelco L, Wiegel J. Clostridium hydroxybenzoicum sp. nov., an amino acid-utilizing, hydroxybenzoate-decarboxylating bacterium isolated from methanogenic freshwater pond sediment. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:214-222.

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Record number: 774899