Name: Sporohalobacter lortetii (Oren 1984) Oren et al. 1988

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Clostridium lortetii Oren 1984

Etymology: lor.tet’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. lortetii, of Lortet, named after M.L. Lortet, a French microbiologist

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 35059; DSM 3070; Strain MD-2

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16S rRNA gene: M59122 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Oren A, Pohla H, Stackebrandt E. Transfer of Clostridium lortetii to a new genus Sporohalobacter gen. nov. as Sporohalobacter lortetii comb. nov. and description of Sporohalobacter marismortui sp. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1987; 9:239-246.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 24. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:136-137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Clostridium lortetii Oren 1984	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Sporohalobacter Oren et al. 1988. Publication: Oren A, Pohla H, Stackebrandt E. Transfer of Clostridium lortetii to a new genus Sporohalobacter gen. nov. as Sporohalobacter lortetii comb. nov. and description of Sporohalobacter marismortui sp. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1987; 9:239-246.

Parent taxon: Sporohalobacter Oren et al. 1988

Assigned by: Oren A, Pohla H, Stackebrandt E. Transfer of Clostridium lortetii to a new genus Sporohalobacter gen. nov. as Sporohalobacter lortetii comb. nov. and description of Sporohalobacter marismortui sp. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1987; 9:239-246.

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Record number: 781119