Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25396

Name

Romboutsia Gerritsen et al. 2014 emend. Wang et al. 2015

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010

Members

species	Romboutsia ilealis Gerritsen et al. 2014
species	Romboutsia faecis Liu et al. 2022
species	Romboutsia hominis Gerritsen et al. 2018
species	Romboutsia lituseburensis (LaPlanche and Saissac 1948) Gerritsen et al. 2014
species	Romboutsia sedimentorum Wang et al. 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Peptostreptococcaceae Ezaki 2010
genus Romboutsia Gerritsen et al. 2014 emend. Wang et al. 2015

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Romboutsia Gerritsen et al. 2014 emend. Wang et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25396.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25396.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 21, 2022.

References

Gerritsen J, Umanets A, Staneva I, Hornung B, Ritari J, Paulin L, Rijkers GT, de Vos WM, Smidt H. Romboutsia hominis sp. nov., the first human gut-derived representative of the genus Romboutsia, isolated from ileostoma effluent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3479-3486. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003012 [PubMed].
Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.059543-0 [PubMed].
Liu C, Du M-X, Abuduaini R, Yu H-Y, Li D-H, Wang Y-J, Zhou N, Jiang M-Z, Niu P-X, Han S-S, Chen H-H, Shi W-Y, Wu L, Xin Y-H, Ma J, Zhou Y, Jiang C-Y, Liu H-W, Liu S-J. Enlightening the taxonomy darkness of human gut microbiomes with a cultured biobank. Microbiome 2021; 9:119-119. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01064-3 [PubMed].
Wang Y, Song J, Zhai Y, Zhang C, Gerritsen J, Wang H, Chen X, Li Y, Zhao B, Zhao B, Ruan Z. Romboutsia sedimentorum sp. nov., isolated from an alkaline-saline lake sediment and emended description of the genus Romboutsia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1193-1198. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000079 [PubMed].