Enterocloster clostridioformis

Enterocloster clostridioformis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Lachnospiraceae
Genus:	Enterocloster
Species:	E. clostridioformis
Binomial name
Enterocloster clostridioformis (Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Haas and Blanchard 2020 [1]
Synonyms
Bacterium colstridiiforme[1] Bacteroides clostridiiformis[1] Clostridium clostridioforme (Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Kaneuchi et al. 1976[1] Clostridium clostridiiforme[1]

Enterocloster clostridioformis, formerly known as Clostridium clostridioforme, is an anaerobic, motile, Gram-positive bacterium.[2]

Description

E. clostridioformis are rod-shaped bacteria which cannot grow in the presence of oxygen.[3] While Clostridium species have cell walls that resemble gram-positive bacteria, E. clostridioformis often appears negative by Gram stain.[4]

History

The organism now classified as E. clostridioformis was first identified in the 1950s in human and animal feces and assigned to the genus of Gram-negative non-spore-forming bacteria Bacteroides.[4] In subsequent years, these bacteria were shown to form spores, causing them to be reclassified in the genus Clostridium.[4] Most recently this species has been reclassified as E. clostridioformis based on phylogeny.

References

1. Page Species: Enterocloster clostridioformis on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
2. Haas, Kelly N.; Blanchard, Jeffrey L. (2020). "Reclassification of the Clostridium clostridioforme and Clostridium sphenoides clades As enterocloster gen. nov. And lacrimispora gen. nov., including reclassification of 15 taxa". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (1): 23–34. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003698. PMID 31782700. S2CID 208358321.
3. Juergen Wiegel (14 September 2015). "Clostridiaceae". In William Whitman (ed.). Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.fbm00129. ISBN 9781118960608.
4. Kaneuchi, C; Watanabe, K; Terada, A; Benno, Y; Mitsuoka, T (1976). "Taxonomic Study of Bacteroides clostridiiformis subsp. Clostridiiformis (Burri and Ankersmit) Holdeman and Moore and of Related Organisms: Proposal of Clostridium clostridiiformis (Burri and Ankersmit) comb. Nov. And Clostridium symbiosum (Stevens) comb. Nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 26 (2): 195. doi:10.1099/00207713-26-2-195.

• "Clostridium clostridioforme: Clostridium clostridioforme corrig. (Burri and Ankersmit 1906) Kaneuchi et al. 1976". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• UniProt. "Clostridium clostridioforme". Retrieved 2011-02-04.

External links

• "Oldstyle id: 6a9c1ab8696f54ce1c5c98797faf82c1". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands.
• "Enterocloster clostridioformis". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Type strain of Clostridium clostridioforme at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase