Eubacterium tarantellae (DSM 3997, ATCC 29255, 87)

Name: Eubacterium tarantellae (DSM 3997, ATCC 29255, 87)
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BacDive ID 5445

Type strain

Strain Designation 87

Culture col. no. DSM 3997 ATCC 29255 87

NCBI tax ID(s) 39493

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- ATCC <- L.R. Udey, 87

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Eubacterium tarantellae 87 is an anaerobe, rod-shaped animal pathogen that forms rhizoid colonies and was isolated from black mullet brain.

rod-shaped colony-forming anaerobe animal pathogen genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 39439

ATCC 29255,DSM 3997

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:10

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Eubacteriaceae

Genus Eubacterium

Species Eubacterium tarantellae

Full scientific name Eubacterium tarantellae corrig. Udey et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (2)

Eubacterium tarantellus
Clostridium tarantellae

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
43779	10-17 µm	1.3-1.6 µm	rod-shaped

Colony morphology

@ref	Colony size	Colony color	Colony shape	Medium used	Type of hemolysis	Hemolysis ability
43779	2-5 mm	Translucent, colourless	rhizoid	BHIA
43779				Sheep blood agar	beta	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
1565	CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CHOPPED MEAT MEDIUM WITH CARBOHYDRATES (DSMZ Medium 110) Composition: Ground beef 500.0 g/l Casitone 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l K2HPO4 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 5.0 g/l D-Glucose 4.0 g/l Starch 1.0 g/l Maltose 1.0 g/l Cellobiose 1.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl 0.5 g/l Ethanol 0.19 g/l Vitamin K3 0.05 g/l Hemin 0.005 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Vitamin K1 NaOH Distilled water
43779	BHIA
43779	Sheep blood agar

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
1565	positive	growth	25
43779	positive	growth	25-37

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH
43779	positive	growth	5.6-8

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
1565	anaerobe
125438	anaerobe	92.213
125439	facultative anaerobe	96.747

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
1565	A41.01	A3gamma LL-Dpm-Gly

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Metabolite	Sensitivity conc.
43779	17698	chloramphenicol	12 µg/mL
43779	3745	clindamycin	1.6 µg/mL
43779	48923	erythromycin	3 µg/mL
43779	18208	penicillin g	2 Unit
43779	27902	tetracycline	6 µg/mL

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
43779	18276 ChEBI	dihydrogen

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity
43779	DNase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Fishes	-
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Brain

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Host species
1565	black mullet (Mugil cephalus) brain					Mugil cephalus
43779	Brains of dead or moribund striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) that had evidence of a neurological disease	Biscayne Bay, Florida	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FR733677 (>99% sequence identity) for Clostridium tarantellae subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	85
Soil Samples	14
Animal Samples	712
Plant Samples	2
Total Samples	813

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
1565		2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM929572v1 assembly for Clostridium tarantellae DSM 3997	contig	GCA_009295725	39493.3	2868229309	39493	0

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Eubacterium tarantellae partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain DSM3997T	FR733677	1497		39493
1565	Eubacterium tarantellus 16S ribosomal RNA	L34624	1457		39493

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM929572v1 assembly for Clostridium tarantellae DSM 3997
NCBI: GCA_009295725

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	96.75	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	61.17	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	71.48	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	63.79	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Clostridium tarantellae strain DSM 3997
PATRIC: 39493.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	73.08	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	92.21	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	69.17	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	98.15	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	89.64	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	73.48	yes

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Genome Sequence of the Fish Brain Bacterium Clostridium tarantellae.	Bano L, Kiel M, Sales G, Doxey AC, Mansfield MJ, Wami HT, Schiavone M, Rossetto O, Pirazzini M, Dobrindt U, Montecucco C	Microbiol Resour Announc	10.1128/MRA.01575-19	2020

References

#1565	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 3997
#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 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#43779	Paul A. Lawson, Fred A. Rainey: Proposal to restrict the genus Clostridium Prazmowski to Clostridium butyricum and related species. IJSEM 66: 1009 - 1016 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000824 , PubMed 26643615 )
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Eubacterium tarantellae (DSM 3997, ATCC 29255, 87)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Murein

Antibiotic resistance

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_009295725

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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