
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.3965
Name	Clostridium limosum Prévot 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Prévot 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name	Hathewaya limosa
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.3965
Type Strain representative organism	VPI 2700^T (=A 46 =ATCC 25620 =DSM 1400)


Proper Form	Clostridium limosum Prévot 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History	The species Clostridium limosum was originally described by Prévot 1948. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. In 2016, Lawson and Rainey established Clostridium limosum as the basonym of Hathewaya limosa (Prévot 1948) Lawson and Rainey 2016 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Clostridium limosum Prévot 1948 (Approved Lists 1980).April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.3965.
Source File	10.1601/nm.3965.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 8, 2010.

References

Prévot AR. Étude des bactéries anaérobies d'Afrique occidentale française (Sénégal, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire). Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1948; 74:157-170.
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.
Lawson PA, Rainey FA. Proposal to restrict the genus Clostridium (Prazmowski) to Clostridium butyricum and related species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1009-1016. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000824 [PubMed].