Name: Faecalispora sporosphaeroides (Soriano and Soriano 1948) Rios-Galicia et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Clostridium sporosphaeroides Soriano and Soriano 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: spo.ro.sphae.ro’i.des. Gr. fem. n. spora, seed; Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, sphere; Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. fem. adj. sporosphaeroides, having spherical spores

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 25781; DSM 1294; VPI 4527

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X66002 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rios-Galicia B, Saenz JS, Yergaliyev T, Roth C, Camarinha-Silva A, Seifert J. Novel taxonomic and functional diversity of eight bacteria from the upper digestive tract of chicken. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6210.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6271.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Clostridium sporosphaeroides Soriano and Soriano 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.21753 (N = 50).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Faecalispora Rios-Galicia et al. 2024

Assigned by: Rios-Galicia B, Saenz JS, Yergaliyev T, Roth C, Camarinha-Silva A, Seifert J. Novel taxonomic and functional diversity of eight bacteria from the upper digestive tract of chicken. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6210.

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Record number: 43269