Name: Azotobacteraceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: A.zo.to.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Azotobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Azotobacteraceae, the Azotobacter family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-zo-to-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Pribram E. Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1933.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this family to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🧒 Krznaric-Sucic and Weisglass (1979) assigned the genus "Prashechia" Krznaric-Sucic and Weisglass 1979 to this family. Publication: Krznaric-Sucic Z, Weisglass H. [Prashechia--a new genus, Prashechia flavescens--a new species as the causative agent of pleuropneumonia in a nine-year-old girl (author's transl)]. Lijec Vjesn 1979; 101:795-796.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class III. Gammaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321. 🇪🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Azotobacteriaceae". Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Atotobacteriaceae"; "Azofobacteraceae"; "Azolobacteraceae"; "Azotobacleriaceae"; "Azutobacteriaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 10; ATCC: 9; JCM: 8; LMG: 7; NRRL: 6; NBRC: 5; NCAIM: 4; VKM: 3; CIP: 2; UQM: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Pribram E. Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1933.

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