Paraclostridium

Paraclostridium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Peptostreptococcaceae
Genus:	Paraclostridium; Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016
Type species
	Paraclostridium bifermentans; (Weinberg and Séguin 1918) Sasi Jyothsna et al. 2016
Species
	Paraclostridium benzoelyticum ; Paraclostridium bifermentans ; Paraclostridium ghonii ; Paraclostridium sordellii ; Paraclostridium tenue ;
Synonyms
	Paeniclostridium

Paraclostridium is a genus of Gram-positive obligately anaerobic rod-shaped bacteria.

Taxonomy

The genus contains several species originally placed in Clostridium, which the genus name still refers to. Paeniclostridium was separately described as an independent genus in 2016 moving P. ghonii and P. sordellii from Clostridium. Based on additional research of the genomes of Peptostreptococcaceae species, Paeniclostridium was brought into synonymy with Paraclostridium.^[2]

References

^ Page Genus: Paraclostridium on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
^ Bello, Sarah; McQuay, Sarah; Rudra, Bashudev; Gupta, Radhey (2024). "Robust demarcation of the family Peptostreptococcaceae and its main genera based on phylogenomic studies and taxon-specific molecular markers". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 74 (2). doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006247. PMID 38319314.

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[LPSN-1] Page Genus: Paraclostridium on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2024-05-14.

[Bello2024-2] Bello, Sarah; McQuay, Sarah; Rudra, Bashudev; Gupta, Radhey (2024). "Robust demarcation of the family Peptostreptococcaceae and its main genera based on phylogenomic studies and taxon-specific molecular markers". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 74 (2). doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006247. PMID 38319314.

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