Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Clostridium sulfidigenes

Name: Clostridium sulfidigenes Sallam and Steinbüchel 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sul.fi.di’ge.nes. N.L. neut. n. sulfidum, sulfide; Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. sulfidigenes, sulfide-producing

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1538; DSM 18982; SGB2

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16S rRNA gene: EF199998 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sallam A, Steinbuchel A. Clostridium sulfidigenes sp. nov., a mesophilic, proteolytic, thiosulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from pond sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1661-1665.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2381-2382.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Sallam A, Steinbuchel A. Clostridium sulfidigenes sp. nov., a mesophilic, proteolytic, thiosulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from pond sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1661-1665.

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Record number: 787971
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