Name: Cardiobacterium Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Car.di.o.bac.te.ri.um. Gr. fem. n. kardia, heart; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, small rod; N.L. neut. n. Cardiobacterium, bacterium of the heart

Gender: neuter (stem: Cardiobacteri-)

Type species: Cardiobacterium hominis Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Slotnick IJ, Dougherty M. FURTHER CHARACTERIZATION OF AN UNCLASSIFIED GROUP OF BACTERIA CAUSING ENDOCARDITIS IN MAN: CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS GEN. ET SP. N. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1964; 30:261-272.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Cardiobacteriaceae Dewhirst et al. 1990. Publication: Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, La Fontaine S, Rood JI. Transfer of Kingella indologenes (Snell and Lapage 1976) to the genus Suttonella gen. nov. as Suttonella indologenes comb. nov.; transfer of Bacteroides nodosus (Beveridge 1941) to the genus Dichelobacter gen. nov. as Dichelobacter nodosus comb. nov.; and assignment of the genera Cardiobacterium, Dichelobacter, and Suttonella to Cardiobacteriaceae fam. nov. in the gamma division of Proteobacteria on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:426-433.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Cardiobacteriales Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order IV. Cardiobacteriales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 123.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the order Cardiobacteriales Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order IV. Cardiobacteriales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 123.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cardiobucterium"; "Cardwbacterium"; "Carriobacterium"; "Curdiobacterium". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Cardiobacteria".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Han and Falsen (2005). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 2; NCTC: 2; DSM: 2; ATCC: 2; CIP: 1; LMG: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CDBT" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cardiobacterium hominis Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Cardiobacterium valvarum Han et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cardiobacteriaceae Dewhirst et al. 1990

Assigned by: Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, La Fontaine S, Rood JI. Transfer of Kingella indologenes (Snell and Lapage 1976) to the genus Suttonella gen. nov. as Suttonella indologenes comb. nov.; transfer of Bacteroides nodosus (Beveridge 1941) to the genus Dichelobacter gen. nov. as Dichelobacter nodosus comb. nov.; and assignment of the genera Cardiobacterium, Dichelobacter, and Suttonella to Cardiobacteriaceae fam. nov. in the gamma division of Proteobacteria on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:426-433.

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