Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Clostridium schirmacherense

Name: Clostridium schirmacherense Alam et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: schir.ma.cher.en’se. N.L. neut. adj. schirmacherense, pertaining to Schirmacher Oasis in Antarctica

Gender: neuter

Type strain: AP15; DSM 17394; JCM 13289

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16S rRNA gene: AM114453 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Alam SI, Dixit A, Reddy GS, Dube S, Palit M, Shivaji S, Singh L. Clostridium schirmacherense sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, proteolytic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from lake sediment of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:715-720.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1461-1462.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Alam SI, Dixit A, Reddy GS, Dube S, Palit M, Shivaji S, Singh L. Clostridium schirmacherense sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic, proteolytic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from lake sediment of Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:715-720.

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Record number: 774979
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