Peptoclostridium

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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| taxon = Peptoclostridium

| authority = Galperin et al. 2016{{cite web |author=A.C. Parte |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/peptoclostridium |title=Peptoclostridium |access-date=2023-09-09 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) |display-authors=et al.}}

| type_species = Peptoclostridium litorale

| type_species_authority = (Fendrich et al. 1991) Galperin et al. 2016

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• P. acidaminophilum
• P. litorale

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Peptoclostridium is a genus in family of Peptostreptococcaceae.{{cite web |author=Sayers |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=1481960&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Peptoclostridium |access-date=2023-09-09 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}

Before assigned to the genus as currently defined, the name was previously proposed in 2013 as a novel genus hosting C. difficile as Peptoclostridium difficile, before that species was validly moved to the related genus Clostridioides in 2016.{{cite web |author=A.C. Parte |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/species/peptoclostridium-difficile |title=Peptoclostridium difficile |access-date=2023-09-09 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN); Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen |display-authors=et al.}}