Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13066

Name

Butyricicoccus Eeckhaut et al. 2008

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	Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Spring 2021

Members

species	Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum Eeckhaut et al. 2008
species	Butyricicoccus desmolans (Morris et al. 1986) Takada et al. 2016
species	Butyricicoccus faecihominis Takada et al. 2016
species	Butyricicoccus intestinisimiae Li et al. 2022
species	Butyricicoccus porcorum Trachsel et al. 2018

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 Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Spring 2021
genus Butyricicoccus Eeckhaut et al. 2008

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 Butyricicoccus Eeckhaut et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13066.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13066.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

References

Eeckhaut V, Van Immerseel F, Teirlynck E, Pasmans F, Fievez V, Snauwaert C, Haesebrouck F, Ducatelle R, Louis P, Vandamme P. Butyricicoccus pullicaecorum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, butyrate-producing bacterium isolated from the caecal content of a broiler chicken. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2799-2802. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65730-0 [PubMed].
Trachsel J, Humphrey S, Allen HK. Butyricicoccus porcorum sp. nov., a butyrate-producing bacterium from swine intestinal tract. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1737-1742. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002738 [PubMed].
Takada T, Watanabe K, Makino H, Kushiro A. Reclassification of Eubacterium desmolans as Butyricicoccus desmolans comb. nov., and Butyricicoccus faecihominis sp. nov., a novel butyrate-producing bacterium from human faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4125-4131. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001323 [PubMed].
Li D-H, Abuduaini R, Du M-X, Wang Y-J, Chen H-H, Zhou N, Zhu H-Z, Lu Y, Yu P-J, Yang Y-P, Jiang C-Y, Sun Q, Liu C, Liu S-J. Alkaliphilus flagellatus sp. nov., Butyricicoccus intestinisimiae sp. nov., Clostridium mobile sp. nov., Clostridium simiarum sp. nov., Dysosmobacter acutus sp. nov., Paenibacillus brevis sp. nov., Peptoniphilus ovalis sp. nov. and Tissierella simiarum sp. nov., isolated from monkey faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005276 [PubMed].