Name: Hathewaya limosa (André 1948) Lawson and Rainey 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Clostridium limosum André 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: li.mo’sa. L. fem. adj. limosa, muddy or slimy

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 25620; BCRC 14513; CCRC 14513; CCUG 24037; DSM 1400; JCM 1427; NCIB 10638; NCIMB 10638; VPI 2700

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LC036318 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lawson PA, Rainey FA. Proposal to restrict the genus Clostridium Prazmowski to Clostridium butyricum and related species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1009-1016.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Clostridium limosum André 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), no evidence of human infection was found for this species. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.

Parent taxon: Hathewaya Lawson and Rainey 2016

Assigned by: Lawson PA, Rainey FA. Proposal to restrict the genus Clostridium Prazmowski to Clostridium butyricum and related species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1009-1016.

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Record number: 793806