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, 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: synonym

Correct name: Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Permianibacteraceae" Flores-Félix et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Garrity et al. (2003) assigned the genus Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG. Taxonomic Outline of the Procaryotes. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Release 4.0. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003.
  • 🧒 Krznaric-Sucic and Weisglass (1979) assigned the genus "Prashechia" 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.
  • 🧒 Pribram (1933) assigned the genus Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: [pribram E. Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1933.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has 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 "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".
  • ❗ Azotobacteraceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

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

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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.

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