
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.3927
Name	Clostridium durum Smith and Cato 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Smith and Cato 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name	Paenibacillus durus
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.3927
Type Strain representative organism	P3L-5^T (=VPI 6563 =ATCC 35681 =DSM 1735 =LMG 14658 =ATCC 27763 =CIP 104586 =DSM 5976)


Proper Form	Clostridium durum Smith and Cato 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History	The species Clostridium durum was originally described by Smith and Cato 1974. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. In 1994, Collins et al. established Clostridium durum as the basonym of Paenibacillus durus corrig. (Smith and Cato 1974) Collins et al. 1994 emend. Guella et al. 2019 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Clostridium durum Smith and Cato 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.3927.
Source File	10.1601/nm.3927.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 3, 2020.

References

Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
Collins MD, Lawson PA, Willems A, Cordoba JJ, Fernandez-Garayzabal J, Garcia P, Cai J, Hippe H, Farrow JAE. The phylogeny of the genus Clostridium: proposal of five new genera and eleven new species combinations. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:812-826. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-4-812 [PubMed].
Smith LDS, Cato EP. Clostridium durum, sp. nov. the predominant organism in a sediment core from Black Sea. Can J Microbiol 1974; 20:1393-1397.