Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3973

Name

Clostridium mayombei Kane et al. 1992

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

SFC-5^T (=ATCC 51428 =DSM 6539)

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 mayombei Kane et al. 1992

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 species Clostridium mayombei Kane et al. 1992. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3973.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3973.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 7, 2019.

References

Kane MD, Brauman A, Breznak JA. Clostridium mayombei sp. nov., an H2/CO2 acetogenic bacterium from the gut of the African soil-feeding termite, Cubitermes speciosus. Arch Microbiol 1991; 156:99-104. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290980.