Effective publication:
Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd ed. Williams Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
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
Risk group:
2
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Alcaligenaceae De Ley et al. 1986.Publication:
De Ley J, Segers P, Kersters K, Mannheim W, Lievens A. Intra- and intergeneric similarities of the Bordetella ribosomal ribonucleic acid cistrons: proposal for a new family, Alcaligenaceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1986; 36:405-414.
🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family "Achromobacteraceae" Breed et al. 1957.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.
🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
🧕 Kluyver and Van Niel (1936) assigned this genus to the tribe "Bacterieae".Publication:
Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Alacaligenes"; "Alcafigenes"; "Alcaligcncs"; "Alcaligcnos"; "Alcaligencs"; "Alcaligenis"; "Alcalignes"; "Alculienes"; "Alealigenes"; "Azcazigenes".
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 22; LMG: 18; CIP: 17; ATCC: 15; CCUG: 15; JCM: 15; NBRC: 11; IFO: 5; NCTC: 5; NCIMB: 5.
😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for United Kingdom has been imported on 2024-01-31. The full classification is: risk group = 2.
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ALC" 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: 5 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 20 Total number of child taxa: 26
Assigned by:
De Ley J, Segers P, Kersters K, Mannheim W, Lievens A. Intra- and intergeneric similarities of the Bordetella ribosomal ribonucleic acid cistrons: proposal for a new family, Alcaligenaceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1986; 36:405-414.
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