Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3980

Name

Clostridium orbiscindens Winter et al. 1991

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 49531^T (=DSM 6740 =265)

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 orbiscindens Winter et al. 1991

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.18727	1_3_50AFAA

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Clostridium orbiscindens Winter et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3980.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3980.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 11, 2010.

References

Winter J, Popoff MR, Grimont P, Bokkenheuser VD. Clostridium orbiscindens sp. nov., a human intestinal bacterium capable of cleaving the flavonoid C-ring. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:355-357. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-3-355 [PubMed].