Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.29879

Name

Faecalicatena Sakamoto et al. 2017

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	Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Members

species	Faecalicatena contorta (Prévot 1947) Sakamoto et al. 2017
species	Faecalicatena absiana Shin et al. 2022
species	Faecalicatena acetigenes Hitch et al. 2022
species	Faecalicatena fissicatena (Taylor 1972) Sakamoto et al. 2017
species	Faecalicatena orotica (Wachsman and Barker 1954) Sakamoto et al. 2017

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 Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
genus Faecalicatena Sakamoto et al. 2017

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 Faecalicatena Sakamoto et al. 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.29879.

Source File

10.1601/tx.29879.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2022.

References

Sakamoto M, Iino T, Ohkuma M. Faecalimonas umbilicata gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human faeces, and reclassification of Eubacterium contortum, Eubacterium fissicatena and Clostridium oroticum as Faecalicatena contorta gen. nov., comb. nov., Faecalicatena fissicatena comb. nov. and Faecalicatena orotica comb.nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1219-1227. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001790 [PubMed].
Hitch TCA, Riedel T, Oren A, Overmann J, Lawley TD, Clavel T. Automated analysis of genomic sequences facilitates high-throughput and comprehensive description of bacteria. ISME Commun 2021; 1:16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-021-00017-z.
Shin Y, Paek J, Kim H, Kook J-K, Chang Y-H. Faecalicatena absiana sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic bacterium from a pig farm faeces dump. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005238 [PubMed].