Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.33158

Name

Mediterraneibacter Togo et al. 2019

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	Mediterraneibacter massiliensis Togo et al. 2019
species	Mediterraneibacter butyricigenes Kim et al. 2019
species	Mediterraneibacter faecis (Kim et al. 2011) Togo et al. 2019
species	Mediterraneibacter glycyrrhizinilyticus (Sakuma et al. 2006) Togo et al. 2019
species	Mediterraneibacter gnavus (Moore et al. 1976) Togo et al. 2018
species	Mediterraneibacter hominis Liu et al. 2022
species	Mediterraneibacter lactaris (Moore et al. 1976) Togo et al. 2018
species	Mediterraneibacter torques (Holdeman and Moore 1974) Togo 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 Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
genus Mediterraneibacter Togo et al. 2019

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 Mediterraneibacter Togo et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.33158.

Source File

10.1601/tx.33158.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 22, 2022.

References

Togo AH, Diop A, Bittar F, Maraninchi M, Valero R, Armstrong N, Dubourg G, Labas N, Richez M, Delerce J, Levasseur A, Fournier P-E, Raoult D, Million M. Description of Mediterraneibacter massiliensis, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus isolated from the gut microbiota of an obese patient and reclassification of Ruminococcus faecis, Ruminococcus lactaris, Ruminococcus torques, Ruminococcus gnavus and Clostridium glycyrrhizinilyticum as Mediterraneibacter faecis comb. nov., Mediterraneibacter lactaris comb. nov., Mediterraneibacter torques comb. nov., Mediterraneibacter gnavus comb. nov. and Mediterraneibacter glycyrrhizinilyticus comb. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:2107-2128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-018-1104-y [PubMed].
Kim J-S, Lee KC, Suh MK, Han K-I, Eom MK, Lee JH, Park S-H, Kang SW, Park J-E, Oh BS, Yu SY, Choi S-H, Lee DH, Yoon H, Kim B-Y, Yang S-J, Lee J-S. Mediterraneibacter butyricigenes sp. nov., a butyrate-producing bacterium isolated from human faeces. J Microbiol 2019; 57:38-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-019-8550-8 [PubMed].
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