Biology:Clostridium scatologenes

Short description: Species of bacterium

Clostridium scatologenes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Lachnospiraceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	C. scatologenes
Binomial name
Clostridium scatologenes (Weinberg and Ginsbourg 1927) Prevot 1948

Clostridium scatologenes (CLOSL) is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium.

Originally, in 1925, Fellers and Clough named this species Clostridium scatol. In 1927, Weinberg and Ginsbourg's later reclassification was Bacillus scatologenes. The species has borne its present name since 1948.

References

• "Clostridium scatologenes: (Weinberg and Ginsbourg 1927) Prevot 1948". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=1548. 
• UniProt. "Clostridium scatologenes". https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/1548. 

External links

• Type strain of Clostridium scatologenes at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Wikidata ☰ Q3681146 entry