Species Clostridium lituseburense

Name: Clostridium lituseburense (Laplanche and Saissac 1948) McClung and McCoy 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Inflabilis lituseburense" Laplanche and Saissac 1948

Etymology: li.tus.e.bu.ren’se. N.L. neut. adj. lituseburense, pertaining to Litus Eburneum, the Côte d’Ivoire; from L. neut. n. litus, coast; from L. masc. adj. eburneus, ivory, of ivory

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … li-tus-e-bu-REN-se, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 25759; BCRC 14536; CCRC 14536; CCUG 18920; DSM 797; JCM 1404; NCIB 10637; NCIMB 10637

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: M59107 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: McClung LS, McCoy E. Genus II. Clostridium Prazmowski 1880. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, seventh edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 634-693.

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 (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Romboutsia lituseburensis (Laplanche and Saissac 1948) Gerritsen et al. 2014

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Inflabilis lituseburense" Laplanche and Saissac 1948	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Romboutsia lituseburensis (Laplanche and Saissac 1948) Gerritsen et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Clostridium lituseburense is the correct name instead 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.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 24 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: McClung LS, McCoy E. Genus II. Clostridium Prazmowski 1880. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, seventh edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 634-693.

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Record number: 774920

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Species Clostridium lituseburense