Species "Clostridium nigrificans"

Name: "Clostridium nigrificans" Werkman and Weaver 1927

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 19998; DSM 574; IFO 13698; NBRC 13698; NCIB 8395; NCIMB 8395

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16S rRNA gene: X62176 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Werkman CH, Weaver HJ. Studies in the bacteriology of suphur stinker spoilage of canned sweet corn. Iowa State Journal of Science 1927; 2:57-67.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (Werkman and Weaver 1927) Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Desulfotomaculum nigrificans (Werkman and Weaver 1927) Campbell and Postgate 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans Parshina et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- According to Visser et al. (2014), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans Parshina et al. 2005. Publication: Visser M, Parshina SN, Alves JI, Sousa DZ, Pereira IA, Muyzer G, Kuever J, Lebedinsky AV, Koehorst JJ, Worm P, et al. Genome analyses of the carboxydotrophic sulfate-reducers Desulfotomaculum nigrificans and Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans and reclassification of Desulfotomaculum caboxydivorans as a later synonym of Desulfotomaculum nigrificans. Stand Genomic Sci 2014; 9:655-675.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 21. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:7-10.

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Werkman CH, Weaver HJ. Studies in the bacteriology of suphur stinker spoilage of canned sweet corn. Iowa State Journal of Science 1927; 2:57-67.

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Record number: 4192

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