Rejection of Clostridium putrificum and Conservation of Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium sporogenes OLSEN, INGAR and JOHNSON, JOHN L. and MOORE, L. V. H. and MOORE, W. E. C.,, 45, 414-414 (1995), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-2-414, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Clostridium putrificum (Trevisan 1889) Reddish and Rettger 1922; Clostridium botulinum (van Ermengem 1896) Bergey, Harrison, Breed, Hammer, and Huntoon 1923; and Clostridium sporogenes (Mechnikoff 1908) Bergey, Harrison, Breed, Hammer, and Huntoon 1923 are genetically related at the species level. We propose rejection of the name C. putrificum (which has priority) and conservation of the name C. botulinum on the basis of Rules 23a and 56a of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and conservation of the name C. sporogenes for nontoxigenic strains according to Rules 23a and 56b., language=, type=