Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.28988

Name

Agathobaculum Ahn et al. 2016

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	Oscillospiraceae Peshkoff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019

Members

species	Agathobaculum butyriciproducens Ahn et al. 2016
species	Agathobaculum ammoniilyticum Hitch et al. 2022
species	Agathobaculum desmolans (Morris et al. 1986) Ahn et al. 2016 pro synon. Butyricicoccus desmolans (Morris et al. 1986) Takada et al. 2016
species	Agathobaculum faecis Liu et al. 2022
species	Agathobaculum hominis Liu et al. 2021

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 Oscillospiraceae Peshkoff 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
genus Agathobaculum Ahn et al. 2016

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 Agathobaculum Ahn et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.28988.

Source File

10.1601/tx.28988.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 22, 2022.

References

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Ahn S, Jin T-E, Chang D-H, Rhee M-S, Kim HJ, Lee SJ, Park D-S, Kim B-C. Agathobaculum butyriciproducens gen. nov. sp. nov., a strict anaerobic, butyrate- producing gut bacterium isolated from human faeces and reclassification of Eubacterium desmolans as Agathobaculum desmolans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3656-3661. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001195 [PubMed].