Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 107247, Med78_4-601-WT-1)

Name: Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 107247, Med78_4-601-WT-1)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 158910

Type strain

Strain Designation Med78_4-601-WT-1

Culture col. no. DSM 107247 Med78_4-601-WT-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 1494

Special Collections DSMZ Pig DZIF

History DSMZ <- T. Clavel , TU Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany;

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Clostridium cochlearium Med78_4-601-WT-1 is a bacterium that was isolated from feces; pig, 12 month old, wild type.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 404104

DSM 107247

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:44:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Species Clostridium cochlearium

Full scientific name Clostridium cochlearium (Douglas et al. 1919) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Clostridium lentoputrescens
"Bacillus cochlearius"

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Clostridium cochlearium** (8)	Type strain
2572	C. cochlearium 1243, McClung, 1243, McClung, 10041, DSM ... (type strain)
130920	C. cochlearium G7K4R3-PYG-96, DSM 29358
2570	C. cochlearium H25alpha, DSM 666
2571	C. cochlearium Zi7, DSM 667
2573	C. cochlearium 998, DSM 2153, ATCC 17794, NCIMB 10629, JCM ...
2574	C. cochlearium 446, DSM 3588, ATCC 19407, NCTC 2909, CCUG ...
152177	C. cochlearium CCUG 45978
174395	C. cochlearium NLAE-zl-C224, DSM 116330

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
65732	WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: WILKINS-CHALGREN ANAEROBE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 339) Composition: dehydrated Wilkins-Chalgren medium 33.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.3 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
65732	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125438	anaerobe	90.148

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)
#Host	#Mammals	#Suidae (Pig,Swine)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
65732	feces; pig, 12 month old, wild type	Kranzberg (Bavaria)	Germany	DEU	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence MN537526 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium cochlearium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	733
Soil Samples	855
Animal Samples	1929
Plant Samples	204
Total Samples	3721

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
65732	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1284400v1 assembly for Clostridium cochlearium Med78_4-601-WT-1	contig	GCA_012844005	1494.26	1494	66.65

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
65732	Clostridium cochlearium strain DSM 107247 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MN537526	1468		1494

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Clostridium cochlearium Med78_4-601-WT-1
NCBI: GCA_012844005.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	59.78	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	90.15	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	98.21	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	71.49	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	80.87	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	74.70	no

Literature

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#65732	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 107247
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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