Name: Alcaligenes Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. n. alcali, alcali (from Arabic article al, the; Arabic n. qaliy, ashes of saltwort); Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. masc. n. Alcaligenes, alkali-producing (bacteria)

Gender: masculine

Type species: Alcaligenes faecalis Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• 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". 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.
  • 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 in some sources as: "Alcalignes".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 17
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Alcaligenes aestus Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes aquamarinus (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Hendrie et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes aquatilis Van Trappen et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Alcaligenes cupidus Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes defragrans Foss et al. 1998	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes denitrificans (ex Leifson and Hugh 1954) Rüger and Tan 1983	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes endophyticus Lu et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Alcaligenes eutrophus Davis 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes faecalis Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Alcaligenes latus Palleroni and Palleroni 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes pacificus corrig. Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes pacifus (sic) Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	misspelling	orthographic variant
    Alcaligenes pakistanensis Abbas et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Alcaligenes paradoxus Davis 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes piechaudii Kiredjian et al. 1986	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes ruhlandii (Packer and Vishniac 1955) Aragno and Schlegel 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes venustus Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Alcaligenes xylosoxidans (Yabuuchi and Yano 1981) Kiredjian et al. 1986	validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Alcaligenaceae De Ley et al. 1986

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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