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
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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.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
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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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