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Genus Propionimicrobium

Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).

Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).

 

Propionimicrobium Stackebrandt et al. 2002, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Propionimicrobium lymphophilum (Torrey 1916) Johnson and Cummins 1972.
Etymology: N.L. n. acidum propionicum, propionic acid; N.L. neut. n. microbium (from Gr. adj. mikros, small and Gr. n. bios, life), a microbe; N.L. neut. n. Propionimicrobium, propionic acid-producing microbe.
Valid publication: STACKEBRANDT (E.), SCHUMANN (P.), SCHAAL (K.P.) and WEISS (N.): Propionimicrobium gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate Propionibacterium lymphophilum (Torrey 1916) Johnson and Cummins 1972, 1057AL as Propionimicrobium lymphophilum comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 1925-1927.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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Propionimicrobium lymphophilum (Torrey 1916) Stackebrandt et al. 2002, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) ATCC 27520= CCUG 27816 = CIP 103263 = DSM 4903 = JCM 5829 = LMG 16728 = NCTC 11866 = VPI 7625B.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AJ003056.
Basonym: ¤ Propionibacterium lymphophilum (Torrey 1916) Johnson and Cummins 1972 (Approved Lists 1980).
Other synonyms: "Bacillus lymphophilus" Torrey 1916, "Corynebacterium lymphophilum" (Torrey 1916) Eberson 1918, "Mycobacterium lymphophilum" (Torrey 1916) Krasil'nikov 1949.
Etymology: L. fem. n. lympha, water, clear water, and in biology lymph; N.L. neut. adj. philum (from Gr. neut. adj. philon), friend, loving; N.L. neut. adj. lymphophilum, lymph-loving.
Valid publication: STACKEBRANDT (E.), SCHUMANN (P.), SCHAAL (K.P.) and WEISS (N.): Propionimicrobium gen. nov., a new genus to accommodate Propionibacterium lymphophilum (Torrey 1916) Johnson and Cummins 1972, 1057AL as Propionimicrobium lymphophilum comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 1925-1927.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: In the paper by Stackebrandt et al. 2002, the type strain DSM 4903 is erroneously cited as DSM 4309.

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