Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3974

Name

Clostridium methoxybenzovorans Mechichi et al. 1999

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

SR3^T (=ATCC 700855 =DSM 12182)

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 methoxybenzovorans Mechichi et al. 1999

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 methoxybenzovorans Mechichi et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3974.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3974.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 1, 2021.

References

Mechichi T, Labat M, Patel BKC, Woo THS, Thomas P, Garcia JL. Clostridium methoxybenzovorans sp. nov., a new aromatic o-demethylating homoacetogen from an olive mill wastewater treatment digester. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1201-1209. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-3-1201 [PubMed].