Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.29469

Name

Peptoclostridium Galperin et al. 2016 non Peptoclostridium Yutin and Galperin 2013

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	Peptoclostridium litorale (Fendrich et al. 1991) Galperin et al. 2016
species	Peptoclostridium acidaminophilum (Zindel et al. 1989) Galperin et al. 2016

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 Peptoclostridium Galperin et al. 2016 non Peptoclostridium Yutin and Galperin 2013

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 Peptoclostridium Galperin et al. 2016 non Peptoclostridium Yutin and Galperin 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.29469.

Source File

10.1601/tx.29469.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 23, 2017.

References

Galperin MY, Brover V, Tolstoy I, Yutin N. Phylogenomic analysis of the family Peptostreptococcaceae (Clostridium cluster XI) and proposal for reclassification of Clostridium litorale (Fendrich et al. 1991) and Eubacterium acidaminophilum (Zindel et al. 1989) as Peptoclostridium litorale gen. nov. comb. nov. and Peptoclostridium acidaminophilum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5506-5513. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001548 [PubMed].