Name: "Agarbacterium" Angst 1929

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.gar.bac.te’ri.um. N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Agarbacterium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Agarbacteri-), a-gar-bak-TE-ri-um

Original publication: Angst EC. Some new agar-digesting bacteria. Puget Sound Biological Station publications 1929; 7:49-63.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family "Achromobacteraceae" corrig. Breed 1945. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Agarbacierium"; "Agarbaclerium"; "Agarbactcrium"; "Agarbacteriuni"; "Agarbactrrium"; "Agarbacwrium"; "Agarbarwrium"; "Agarhacterium"; "Agurbaczcrium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 1; CCUG: 1; ACAM: 1; JCM: 1; CIP: 1; DSM: 1; LMG: 1; ATCC: 1; IFO: 1; NCIMB: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "AGAR" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Agarbacterium amocontactum" (ZoBell and Allen 1935) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium boreale" (Lundestad 1928) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium ceramicola" (Lundestad 1928) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium delesseriae" (Lundestad 1928) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium pastinator" (Goresline 1933) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium polysiphoniae" (Lundestad 1928) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium rhodomelae" (Lundestad 1928) Breed 1957	not validly published	preferred name
    "Agarbacterium uliginosum" (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Breed 1957	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Vibrionaceae Véron 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kalayoglu MV, Byrne GI. The Genus Chlamydia—Medical. In: Dworkin M, Falkow S, Rosenberg E, Schleifer K-H, Stackebrandt E (eds), The Prokaryotes. A Handbook on the Biology of Bacteria. Third Edition. Volume 1: Symbiotic Associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, Springer, New York, 2006, p. 741-754.

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