Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Clostridium kluyveri

Name: Clostridium kluyveri Barker and Taha 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: kluy’ver.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kluyveri, of Kluyver, named for A.J. Kluyver, Dutch microbiologist

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 8527; DSM 555; IFO 12016; NBRC 12016; NCCB 46095; NCCB 72061; NCIB 10680; NCIMB 10680

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16S rRNA gene: M59092 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Barker HA, Taha SM. Clostridium kluyverii, an Organism Concerned in the Formation of Caproic Acid from Ethyl Alcohol. J Bacteriol 1942; 43:347-363.

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: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Barker HA, Taha SM. Clostridium kluyverii, an Organism Concerned in the Formation of Caproic Acid from Ethyl Alcohol. J Bacteriol 1942; 43:347-363.

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Record number: 774908
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