%0 Journal Article %A Bouanane-Darenfed, Amel %A Ben Hania, Wajdi %A Cayol, Jean-Luc %A Ollivier, Bernard %A Fardeau, Marie-Laure %T Reclassification of Acetomicrobium faecale as Caldicoprobacter faecalis comb. nov. %D 2015 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 65 %N Pt_10 %P 3286-3288 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000409 %I Microbiology Society, %X Taking into account its phenotypical and genetic characteristics, Acetomicrobium faecale was first recognized as a member of the genus Acetomicrobium, family Bacteroidaceae, order Bacteroidales, phylum Bacteroidetes, with Acetomicrobium flavidum the type species of the genus. However, it was found that A. faecale had 95.8 %, 97.6 % and 98.4 % similarity, respectively, with Caldicoprobacter guelmensis, Caldicoprobacter algeriensis and Caldicoprobacter oshimai and only 82 % similarity with A. flavidum. The DNA G+C content of A. faecale is 45 mol , which is of the same order as the DNA G+C content of the three strains of species of the genus Caldicoprobacter and its main fatty acid is C16 : 0, with its second most prominent fatty acid, iso-C17 : 0, also common to strains of species of the genus Caldicoprobacter. On the basis of further phylogenetic, genetic and chemotaxonomic studies, we propose that A. faecale (type strain DSM 20678T = JCM 30420T) be reclassified as Caldicoprobacter faecalis comb. nov. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000409