Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 666, H25alpha)

Name: Clostridium cochlearium (DSM 666, H25alpha)
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BacDive ID 2570

Type strain

Strain Designation H25alpha

Culture col. no. DSM 666 H25alpha

NCBI tax ID(s) 1494

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Clostridium cochlearium H25alpha is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from hay.

anaerobe mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47253

DSM 666

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:20

Domain Bacillati

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
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
158910	C. cochlearium Med78_4-601-WT-1, DSM 107247
174395	C. cochlearium NLAE-zl-C224, DSM 116330

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
349	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 78) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Ethanol 9.5 g/l (optional) K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Haemin 0.005 g/l (optional) Resazurin 0.001 g/l Vitamin K3 0.0005 g/l (optional) Vitamin K1 (optional) NaOH (optional) Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
349	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

349

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Plants	#Herbaceous plants (Grass,Crops)
#Host Body Product	#Plant	#Straw

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
349	hay	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity human	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
349	yes, in single cases	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#349	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 666
#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 )
#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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