Paraclostridium
Appearance
Paraclostridium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Clostridia |
Order: | Eubacteriales |
Family: | Peptostreptococcaceae |
Genus: | Paraclostridium Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016[1] |
Type species | |
Paraclostridium bifermentans (Weinberg and Séguin 1918) Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016
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Species | |
Synonyms | |
Paeniclostridium |
Paraclostridium is a genus of Gram-positive obligately anaerobic rod-shaped bacteria.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus contains several species originally placed in Clostridium, which the genus name still refers to. Paeniclostridium was separately described as an independent genus in 2016 moving P. ghonii and P. sordellii from Clostridium. Based on additional research of the genomes of Peptostreptococcaceae species, Paeniclostridium was brought into synonymy with Paraclostridium.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Page Genus: Paraclostridium on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ Bello, Sarah; McQuay, Sarah; Rudra, Bashudev; Gupta, Radhey (2024). "Robust demarcation of the family Peptostreptococcaceae and its main genera based on phylogenomic studies and taxon-specific molecular markers". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 74 (2). doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006247. PMID 38319314.