Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3901

Name

Clostridium botulinum (van Ermengem 1896) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016

Type Strain

representative organism

ATCC 25763^T

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lawson and Rainey 2016
species Clostridium botulinum (van Ermengem 1896) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.20763	BKT028387
10.1601/ex.14975	NCTC 2916
10.1601/ex.14976	Iwanei E
10.1601/ex.15112	A (=ATCC 19397 =BoNT/A1)
10.1601/ex.15113	type A - Hall (=ATCC 3502)
10.1601/ex.15114	A (=BoNT/A1 Hall)
10.1601/ex.15115	Colworth BL151
10.1601/ex.15116	BoNT/A3 Loch Maree
10.1601/ex.15117	Eklund 17B (=B)
10.1601/ex.15118	BoNT/B1 Okra
10.1601/ex.15119	Ba4 657
10.1601/ex.15120	Bf
10.1601/ex.15121	type C - Eklund
10.1601/ex.15122	1873 (=D)
10.1601/ex.15123	E1 (=BoNT E Beluga)
10.1601/ex.15124	E3 (=Alaska E43)
10.1601/ex.15125	Langeland (=F)
10.1601/ex.15126	G
10.1601/ex.17069	A2 Kyoto-F (=BoNT)
10.1601/ex.17070	17B
10.1601/ex.18451	HALLAH
10.1601/ex.19078	F-230613
10.1601/ex.20761	BKT015925
10.1601/ex.20762	type C Stockholm
10.1601/ex.20764	V891
10.1601/ex.22070	H04402 065

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Clostridium botulinum (van Ermengem 1896) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3901.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3901.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 20, 2016.

References

Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. In: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, First Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1923, p. 1-442.