Thermoclostridium stercorarium

Thermoclostridium stercorarium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Eubacteriales
Family: Oscillospiraceae
Genus: Thermoclostridium
Species:
T. stercorarium
Binomial name
Thermoclostridium stercorarium
(Madden 1983) Zhang et al. 2018[1]
Type strain
DSM 19027, EBR596, NBRC 102590[2]
Subspecies
  • subsp. leptospartum
  • subsp. stercorarium
  • subsp. thermolacticum
Synonyms
  • Clostridium stercorarium
  • Clostridium thermolacticum

Thermoclostridium stercorarium is a cellulolytic thermophilic bacterium. It is anaerobic, spore-forming and saccharoclastic, with cells being rod-shaped and 0.7 to 0.8 by 2.7 to 7.7 μm in size.[3] Its genome has been sequenced.[4]

  1. ^ Page Species: Thermoclostridium stercorarium on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  2. ^ "Clostridium caenicola Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net.
  3. ^ Madden, R. H. (1983). "Isolation and Characterization of Clostridium stercorarium sp. nov., Cellulolytic Thermophile". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 33 (4): 837–840. doi:10.1099/00207713-33-4-837. ISSN 0020-7713.
  4. ^ Poehlein, A.; Zverlov, V. V.; Daniel, R.; Schwarz, W. H.; Liebl, W. (2013). "Complete Genome Sequence of Clostridium stercorarium subsp. stercorarium Strain DSM 8532, a Thermophilic Degrader of Plant Cell Wall Fibers". Genome Announcements. 1 (2): e00073-13–e00073-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00073-13. ISSN 2169-8287. PMC 3593316. PMID 23516204.