Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4119

Name

Lachnospira Bryant and Small 1956 emend. Rogosa and Bryant 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Lachnospira multipara corrig. Bryant and Small 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Lachnospira eligens (Holdeman and Moore 1974) García-López et al. 2020
species	Lachnospira hominis Liu et al. 2021
species	Lachnospira pectinoschiza Cornick et al. 1994

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 Lachnospira Bryant and Small 1956 emend. Rogosa and Bryant 1974 (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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the genus Lachnospira Bryant and Small 1956 emend. Rogosa and Bryant 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4119.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4119.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 22, 2022.

References

García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front. Microbio. 2019; 10:2083-2083. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083 [PubMed].
Bryant MP, Small N. Characteristics of two new genera of anaerobic curved rods isolated from the rumen of cattle. J Bacteriol 1956; 72:22-26. [PubMed].
Liu C, Du M-X, Abuduaini R, Yu H-Y, Li D-H, Wang Y-J, Zhou N, Jiang M-Z, Niu P-X, Han S-S, Chen H-H, Shi W-Y, Wu L, Xin Y-H, Ma J, Zhou Y, Jiang C-Y, Liu H-W, Liu S-J. Enlightening the taxonomy darkness of human gut microbiomes with a cultured biobank. Microbiome 2021; 9:119-119. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01064-3 [PubMed].
Cornick NA, Jensen NS, Stahl DA, Hartman PA, Allison MJ. Lachnospira pectinoschiza sp. nov., an anaerobic pectinophile from the pig intestine. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:87-93. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-1-87 [PubMed].