Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3953

Name

Clostridium innocuum Smith and King 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016

Type Strain

representative organism

JCM 1292^T (=ATCC 14501)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Spring 2021
genus Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016
species Clostridium innocuum Smith and King 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.22083	CIP 110253 (=2959)
10.1601/ex.17079	SB23
10.1601/ex.18486	BEI HM-287 (=HGF2)
10.1601/ex.18419	JGS6384

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Clostridium innocuum Smith and King 1962 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3953.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3953.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 7, 2019.

References

Smith LDS, King E. Clostridium innocuum, sp. n., a sporeforming anaerobe isolated from human infections. J Bacteriol 1962; 83:938-939. [PubMed].