Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3924

Name

Clostridium difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Prévot 1938 (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

McClung 1780^T (=LMG 21717 =ATCC 9689 =NCTC 11209 =BCRC 10642 =CCUG 4938 =NCIMB 10666 =CGMCC 1.2184 =LMG 15861 =AS 1.2184 =JCM 1296 =CECT 531 =NCIB 10666 =USDA 90556-M6S =CIP 104282 =DSM 1296)

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 difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Prévot 1938 (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.17076	CF5
10.1601/ex.14954	gs
10.1601/ex.18407	6466
10.1601/ex.14964	BEI Shipping (=6_1_30)
10.1601/ex.22081	050-P50-2011
10.1601/ex.20767	P5433
10.1601/ex.14962	NAP1 (=QCD-76w55)
10.1601/ex.18408	6407
10.1601/ex.14951	630 (=ATCC BAA-1382)
10.1601/ex.14959	NAP1a/001 (=QCD-37x79)
10.1601/ex.14953	CIP 107932
10.1601/ex.14958	QCD-32g58
10.1601/ex.17072	CD196
10.1601/ex.14960	QCD-63q42
10.1601/ex.17074	BI1
10.1601/ex.17078	M120
10.1601/ex.17073	SM (=R20291)
10.1601/ex.14955	BEI HM-88 (=NAP07)
10.1601/ex.14957	QCD-23m63
10.1601/ex.14961	QCD-66c26
10.1601/ex.17077	2007855
10.1601/ex.20766	D22
10.1601/ex.22080	002-P50-2011
10.1601/ex.17075	M68
10.1601/ex.20765	70-100-2010
10.1601/ex.14963	QCD-97b34 (=NAP1b/006)
10.1601/ex.14952	ATCC 43255 (=VPI 10463)
10.1601/ex.18406	6503
10.1601/ex.18405	6534
10.1601/ex.14956	NAP08 (=BEI HM-89)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Clostridium difficile (Hall and O'Toole 1935) Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3924.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3924.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 23, 2011.

References

Prévot AR. Études de systématique bactérienne. IV. Critique de la conception actuelle du genre Clostridium. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1938; 61:72-91.