Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Clostridium hylemonae

Name: Clostridium hylemonae Kitahara et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hy.le.mon’ae. N.L. gen. masc. n. hylemonae, of Hylemon, after the American microbiologist Phillip B. Hylemon, for his contributions to research on bile acid

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CIP 106689; DSM 15053; JCM 10539; TN-271

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16S rRNA gene: AB023972 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kitahara M, Takamine F, Imamura T, Benno Y. Assignment of Eubacterium sp. VPI 12708 and related strains with high bile acid 7alpha-dehydroxylating activity to Clostridium scindens and proposal of Clostridium hylemonae sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:971-978.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1419-1420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kitahara M, Takamine F, Imamura T, Benno Y. Assignment of Eubacterium sp. VPI 12708 and related strains with high bile acid 7alpha-dehydroxylating activity to Clostridium scindens and proposal of Clostridium hylemonae sp. nov., isolated from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:971-978.

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Record number: 774900
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