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Species Eubacterium plexicaudatum
Name: Eubacterium plexicaudatum Wilkins et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: ple.xi.cau.da.tum. L. masc. adj. plexus, twisted or braided; N.L. masc. adj. caudatus, with a tail; from L. fem. n. cauda, tail; N.L. neut. adj. plexicaudatum, with a braided tail, referring to the tuft of subpolar flagella that are twisted together to form the “large flagellum” often visible by darkfield or phase-contrast microscopy
Effective publication:
Wilkins TD, Fulghum RS, Wilkins JH. Eubacterium plexicaudatum sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium with a subpolar tuft of flagella, isolated from a mouse cecum. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1974; 24:408-411. 
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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — 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 6 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
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🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "orphan species with designated type strains that were either not deposited in culture collections or whose type strain is currently not available from a recognized culture collection. Not available in ATCC.".
Publication:
Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.
- 🧍 The strain VPI 7582 was assigned to ATCC. However, this culture is no longer available at the ATCC and most probably there is not alternative collection. — Yarza P. Personal communication, 2009-12-01.
Parent taxon: Eubacterium Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Wilkins TD, Fulghum RS, Wilkins JH. Eubacterium plexicaudatum sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium with a subpolar tuft of flagella, isolated from a mouse cecum. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1974; 24:408-411.
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Record number: 783812
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