Endangered prokaryotic names
J.P. Euzéby (SBSV) & B.J. Tindall (DSMZ)
At the meetings of the Judicial Commission at the IUMS Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology Congress in San Francisco in 2005, the Judicial Commission of the International Committee for Systematics of Prokaryotes considered the Request for an Opinion published in 2004 by Euzéby and Tindall and issued the Judicial Opinion 81.
References:
1 EUZÉBY (J.P.) and TINDALL (B.J.): Status of strains that contravene Rules 27(3) and 30 of the Bacteriological Code. Request for an Opinion. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 293-301.
Original article in IJSEM Online
2 JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Status of strains that contravene Rules 27 (3) and 30 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria. Opinion 81. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 1755-1763.
Opinion 81 in IJSEM Online
Forty three species names are considered not be validly published, since deposit in two different collections in two different countires has not been documented [Rule 27(3) and 30]. These endangered prokaryotic names are listed below in the table 1.
The Opinion 81 issued by the Judicial Commission provides a solution whereby names listed in table 1 may be considered to be validly published.
According to the Opinion 81 issued by the Judicial Commission, authors or these names, or other scientists who wish to have these names validly published, should submit evidence of the deposit of the type strain in additional collections to the List Editor (either directly or via the IJSEM Editorial Office) before the next meeting of the Judicial Commission (2012). After that time, the names will be ruled not to have been validly published. If, after that deadline, the authors or other scientists wish to have these names validly published, this may be done by confirming that the names are in accordance with the requirements of the Code and either by requesting valid publication via the Validation Lists or by inclusion of the proposal in an original article in the IJSEM. The details of valid publication will then make reference to those publications. If authors or other scientists feel that an exception should be granted to Rule 30, requiring deposit of the type in two different collections in two different countries, they should contact the Editorial Office of the IJSEM.
Consequently, to avoid confusion in prokaryotic nomenclature it is important that scientists deposit the type strains in additional collections.
Note:
Table 1b of the Opinion 81 encompasses names considered not to be validly published at the time of writing, since deposit in two different collections in two different countries has not been documented. Since the publication of the Opinion 81, the deposit of the type strain in at least two recognized culture collections in two different countries was documented for the following taxa:
- Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans Sanford et al. 2002
- Azoarcus buckelii Mechichi et al. 2002
- Azospirillum doebereinerae Eckert et al. 2001
- Borrelia sinica Masuzawa et al. 2001
- Dehalospirillum multivorans Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002
- Desulfobulbus mediterraneus Sass et al. 2002
- Desulfomicrobium orale Langendijk et al. 2001
- Desulfovibrio mexicanus Hernandez-Eugenio et al. 2001
- Desulfovibrio vietnamensis Dang et al. 2002
- Dethiosulfovibrio acidaminovorans Surkov et al. 2001
- Dethiosulfovibrio marinus Surkov et al. 2001
- Dethiosulfovibrio russensis Surkov et al. 2001
- Halorhodospira neutriphila Hirschler-Réa et al. 2003
- Kordia algicida Sohn et al. 2004*
- Leptotrichia trevisanii Tee et al. 2002
- Methanocaldococcus fervens (Jeanthon et al. 1999) Whitman 2002
- Methanocaldococcus infernus (Jeanthon et al. 1998) Whitman 2002
- Nautilia lithotrophica Miroshnichenko et al. 2002
- Opitutus terrae Chin et al. 2001
- Propionispora vibrioides Biebl et al. 2001
- Pseudomonas cedrina Dabboussi et al. 2002
- Pseudomonas orientalis Dabboussi et al. 2002
- Rhodobaca bogoriensis Milford et al. 2001
- Sulfurospirillum multivorans (Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002) Luijtgen et al. 2003
- Thauera aminoaromatica Mechichi et al. 2002
- Thauera chlorobenzoica Song et al. 2001
- Thauera phenylacetica Mechichi et al. 2002
- Thermococcus atlanticus Cambon-Bonavita et al. 2004**
Consequently, these names are not cited below.
Table 1: Names considered not to be validly published, since deposit in two different collections in two different countries has not been documented
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Species names |
Type species of the genus |
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No |
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Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius subsp. rittmannii Nicolaus et al. 2002 |
No |
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Yes |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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Yes |
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No |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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Neorickettsia risticii (Holland et al. 1985) Dumler et al. 2001 |
No |
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Neorickettsia sennetsu (Misao and Kobayashi 1956) Dumler et al. 2001 |
No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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Yes |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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Yes |
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Yes |
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No |
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No |
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No |
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Yes |
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Yes |
* Kordia algicida was published in the IJSEM in 2004. So, this name is not cited in the table 1b of the Opinion 81.
** Thermococcus atlanticus Cambon-Bonavita et al. 2004 is not cited in the table 1b of the Opinion 81.
Thermococcus atlanticus (type strain MA898 = CIP 107420 = DSM 15226) appears in Validation List 99. However, the type strain CIP 107420 was never available and this name was deleted from Validation List 99. As a consequence, Thermococcus atlanticus was not validly published [Rules 27(3) and 30]. However, according to the Judicial Opinion 81, Thermococcus atlanticus Cambon-Bonavita et al. 2004 is considered to be validly published, since deposit in a second culture collection in a different country has been documented (strain JCM 16138).
