Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9229

Name

Clostridium estertheticum Collins et al. 1993 emend. Spring et al. 2003

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

Members

subspecies	Clostridium estertheticum estertheticum (Collins et al. 1993) Spring et al. 2003
subspecies	Clostridium estertheticum laramiense (Kalchayanand et al. 1993) Spring et al. 2003

Type Strain

representative organism

NCIMB 12511^T (=DSM 8809)

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 estertheticum Collins et al. 1993 emend. Spring et al. 2003

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 estertheticum Collins et al. 1993 emend. Spring et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9229.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9229.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 10, 2017.

References

Spring S, Merkhoffer B, Weiss N, Kroppenstedt RM, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E. Characterization of novel psychrophilic clostridia from an Antarctic microbial mat: description of Clostridium frigoris sp. nov., Clostridium lacusfryxellense sp. nov., Clostridium bowmanii sp. nov. and Clostridium psychrophilum sp. nov. and reclassification of Clostridium laramiense as Clostridium estertheticum subsp. laramiense subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1019-1029. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02554-0 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Rodrigues UM, Dainty RH, Edwards RA, Roberts TA. Taxonomic studies on a psychrophilic Clostridium from vacuum-packed beef: description of Clostridium estertheticum sp. nov. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1992; 96:235-240. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb05423.x [PubMed].