Name: Fusobacterium plauti Séguin 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 29863; CCUG 28093; DSM 4000; Prévot S1; VPI 0310

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16S rRNA gene: AY724678 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Séguin P. Culture du Fusobacterium plauti forme mobile du bacille fusiforme. Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie (Paris) 1928; 99:439-442.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Fusobacterium plautii corrig. Séguin 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Fusobacterium plautii corrig. Séguin 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
    Flavonifractor plautii (Séguin 1928) Carlier et al. 2010	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Eubacterium plautii (Séguin 1928) Hofstad and Aasjord 1982	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Clostridium orbiscindens Winter et al. 1991	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Carlier et al. (2010), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Clostridium orbiscindens Winter et al. 1991. Publication: Carlier JP, Bedora-Faure M, K'ouas G, Alauzet C, Mory F. Proposal to unify Clostridium orbiscindens Winter et al. 1991 and Eubacterium plautii (Seguin 1928) Hofstad and Aasjord 1982, with description of Flavonifractor plautii gen. nov., comb. nov., and reassignment of Bacteroides capillosus to Pseudoflavonifractor capillosus gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:585-590.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Séguin P. Culture du Fusobacterium plauti forme mobile du bacille fusiforme. Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie (Paris) 1928; 99:439-442.

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Record number: 783886