Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4129

Name

Butyrivibrio Bryant and Small 1956 emend. Bryant 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Members

species	Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens Bryant and Small 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Butyrivibrio crossotus Moore et al. 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Butyrivibrio hungatei Kopecný et al. 2003
species	Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus (Attwood et al. 1996) Moon et al. 2008

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 Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
genus Butyrivibrio Bryant and Small 1956 emend. Bryant 1974 (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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the genus Butyrivibrio Bryant and Small 1956 emend. Bryant 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4129.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4129.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 11, 2009.

References

Kopecný J, Zorec M, Mrázek J, Kobayashi Y, Marinšek-Logar R. Butyrivibrio hungatei sp. nov. and Pseudobutyrivibrio xylanivorans sp. nov., butyrate-producing bacteria from the rumen. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:201-209. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02345-0 [PubMed].
Bryant MP, Small N. The anaerobic monotrichous butyric acid-producing curved rod-shaped bacteria of the rumen. J Bacteriol 1956; 72:16-21. [PubMed].
Moon CD, Pacheco DM, Kelly WJ, Leahy SC, Li D, Kopecny J, Attwood GT. Reclassification of Clostridium proteoclasticum as Butyrivibrio proteoclasticus comb. nov., a butyrate-producing ruminal bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2041-2045. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65845-0 [PubMed].
Moore WEC, Johnson JL, Holdeman LV. Emendation of Bacteroidaceae and Butyrivibrio and descriptions of Desulfomonas gen. nov. and ten new species in the genera Desulfomonas, Butyrivibrio, Eubacterium, Clostridium and Ruminococcus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1976; 26:238-252. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-26-2-238.