Name: "Bacterium" Ehrenberg 1831

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Bacterium

Gender: neuter (stem: Bacteri-)

Type species: "Bacterium triloculare" Ehrenberg 1831

Original publication: Ehrenberg C. Symbolae Physicae. Animalia evertebrata exclusis insectis. Ex Officina Academica, Berolini, 1831.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Nägeli (1857) assigned this genus to the class Schizomycetes Nägeli 1857 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Nägeli Cv. Bericht über die Verhandlungen der 33. Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte, gehalten in Bonn von 18 bis 24 September 1857 (in Caspari, R.). Botanische Zeitung 1857; 15:749-776.
  • 🧕 Schröter (1886) assigned this genus to the uncategorized "Eubacteria" Schroeter 1886. Publication: Schroeter J. Schizomycetes (1886), pp. 131-256. In: Cohn F (eds), Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien, Band 3, Heft 3, Pilze, Max Müller, Breslau, 1889, p. 1-814.
  • 🧕 Winslow et al. (1920) assigned this genus to the tribe "Bactereae". Publication: Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Final Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1920; 5:191-229.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1948) assigned the subgenus "Agarbacterium" to this genus. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1948) assigned the subgenus "Cellulomonas" to this genus. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1948) assigned the subgenus "Kurthia" to this genus. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1948) assigned the subgenus "Methanobacterium" to this genus. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1948) assigned the subgenus "Photobacterium" to this genus. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1948) assigned the subgenus "Saccharobacterium" to this genus. 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: "Bacaerium"; "Bacberium"; "Baccerium"; "Baceerium"; "Bacierium"; "Baclcrium"; "Baclerium"; "Baclrrium"; "Baclvrium"; "Bacmrium"; "Bactarium"; "Bacteerium"; "Bactefium"; "Bacteriica"; "Bacteriiga"; "Bacteritga"; "Bacteritna"; "Bacteriuia"; "Bacteriura"; "Bacterius"; "Bacteriusa"; "Bacteriusi"; "Bacterlum"; "Bacterrium"; "Bacterrum"; "Bactertum"; "Bactetium"; "Bactezium"; "Bactezrium"; "Bactlrium"; "Bactorium"; "Bactrium"; "Bactrnum"; "Bactrrium"; "Bacturium"; "Bactvrium"; "Bacwrium"; "Baczcrium"; "Baczerium"; "Baetcrium"; "Baeterium"; "Bahterium"; "Baleterium"; "Baoterium"; "Barlerium"; "Bartcrium"; "Barterium"; "Bartrrium"; "Bartvrium"; "Basterium"; "Batterium"; "Bavcterium"; "Bavierium"; "Bavlvrium"; "Bavterium"; "Bavtvrium"; "Bcicterium"; "Bctetrium"; "Bncterium"; "Bocterium"; "Dacterium"; "Ebacteriurn"; "Jacterium"; "Kacterium"; "Racterium"; "Raczerium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 58; DSM: 57; CIP: 52; CCUG: 50; LMG: 39; JCM: 37; NCTC: 35; NBRC: 26; IFO: 21; NCIMB: 18.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "budayi.: 1 Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1; W3A1: 1 Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1; W6: 1 Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 See also Ehrenberg (1832). Publication: Ehrenberg CG. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation der Infusorien und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung besonders in Sibirien. Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1832; 1830:1-88.

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: 68

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Bacterium abortus" Schmidt 1901	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium actinomycetemcomitans" Klinger 1912	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium aeruginosum" Schroeter 1872	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium albilineans" Ashby 1929	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium ammoniagenes" Cooke and Keith 1927	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium andropogoni" Smith 1911	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium anitratum" Schaub and Hauber 1948	not validly published	synonym
    "Bacterium ascendens" Henneberg 1898	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium beticola" Hauduroy et al. 1953	not validly published	preferred name
    "Bacterium betle" Ragunathan 1928	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium bifidum" (Tissier 1900) Orla-Jensen 1919	not validly published	synonym
    "Bacterium budayi" Le Blaye and Guggenheim 1914	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium cattleyae" Pavarino 1911	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium chauvoei" Arloing et al. 1887	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium cloacae" (Jordan 1890) Lehmann and Neumann 1896	not validly published	synonym
    "Bacterium clostridiiforme" Burri and Ankersmit 1906	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium curvatum" Troili-Petersson 1903	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium cylindroides" Rocchi 1908	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium enterocoliticum" Schleifstein and Coleman 1939	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium esteraromaticum" Omelianski 1923	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium fimi" McBeth and Scales 1913	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium flaccumfaciens" Hedges 1922	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium fragi" Eichholz 1902	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium freundii" Braak 1928	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium globiforme" Conn 1928	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium haemoglobinophilus" Lehmann and Neumann 1907	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium halobium" Petter 1931	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium herbicola" Löhnis 1911	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium imperiale" Steinhaus 1941	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium incertum" Steinhaus 1941	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium industrium" Henneberg 1898	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium influenzae" Lehmann and Neumann 1896	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium kleinii" Hauduroy et al. 1953	not validly published	preferred name
    "Bacterium kutscheri" Migula 1900	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium lactis" Lister 1873	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium linens" Wolff 1910	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium marginale" Brown 1918	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium melaninogenicum" Oliver and Wherry 1921	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium michiganense" Smith 1910	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium monocytogenes" Murray et al. 1926	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium multocidum" Lehmann and Neumann 1899	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium orleanense" Henneberg 1906	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium oxydans" Henneberg 1897	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium pestis" Lehmann and Neumann 1896	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium plymuthicum" Lehmann and Neumann 1896	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium pneumosintes" Olitsky and Gates 1921	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium renale" Migula 1900	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium rettgeri" Hadley et al. 1918	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium rhusiopathiae" Migula 1900	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium rubidaeum" Stapp 1940	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium salicis" Day 1924	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium salmonicida" Lehmann and Neumann 1896	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium sepedonicum" Spieckermann and Kotthoff 1914	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium sonnei" Levine 1920	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium striatum" Chester 1901	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium stutzeri" Lehmann and Neumann 1896	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium trapanicum" Petter 1931	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium triloculare" Ehrenberg 1831	not validly published	preferred name
    "Bacterium tuberculosis" Zopf 1883	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium tularense" McCoy and Chapin 1912	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium tumefaciens" Smith and Townsend 1907	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium udum" Kellerman et al. 1913	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium vermiforme" Ward 1892	not validly published	synonym
    "Bacterium woodsii" Smith 1911	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium xylinum" Brown 1886	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium zoogleiformans" Weinberg et al. 1937	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Bacterium zoogleoformans" corrig. Weinberg et al. 1937	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Bacterium zopfii" Kurth 1883	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym

Parent taxon: [Bacteriaceae]

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