Name: Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Beg.gia’to.a. N.L. fem. n. Beggiatoa, a genus of bacteria, named in remembrance of F.S. Beggiato, a physician of Vicenza (g.b. 1807), who authored the Delle Terme Euganea

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Beggiato-), beg-GIA-to-a

Type species: Beggiatoa alba (Vaucher 1803) Trevisan 1845 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Trevisan V. Prospetto della Flora Euganea. Coi Tipi Del Seminario, Padova, 1842.

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, conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Migula N. Ueber ein neues System der Bakterien. Arbeiten aus dem Bakteriologischen Institut der Technischen Hochschule zu Karlsruhe 1894; 1:235-238.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Buchanan RE. Order VII. Beggiatoales Buchanan, Ordo Nov. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 837-853.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Thiotrichaceae" Pringsheim 1949. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Thiotrichaceae fam. 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. 131.
  • 🧕 Buchanan (1957) assigned this genus to the order Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Buchanan RE. Order VII. Beggiatoales Buchanan, Ordo Nov. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 837-853.
  • 🧒 Hansgirg (1888) assigned the section "Eubeggiatoa" to this genus. Publication: Hansgirg A. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Kellerbacterien, nebst Bemerkungen zur Systematik der Spaltpitze (Bacteria). Österr. botan. Zeitschrift 1888; 38:p263-267.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892. Publication: Vaucher JP. Histoire des conferves d'eau douce, contenant leurs différents modes de reproduction, et la description de leurs principales espèces. J.J. Paschoud, Geneva, 1803.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Begcjiatoa"; "Begegiatoa"; "Begeiatoa"; "Beggfatoa"; "Beggiacoa"; "Beggiaeoa"; "Beggiafoa"; "Beggiaioa"; "Beggialoa"; "Beggiama"; "Beggiaoa"; "Beggiaota"; "Beggiaroa"; "Beggiataa"; "Beggiatea"; "Beggiazoa"; "Beggintoa"; "Beggiotoa"; "Beggiutoa"; "Begglatoa"; "Begqiatoa"; "Bejgiatoa"; "Bepgiatoa"; "Besgiatoa"; "Beygiatoa"; "Boggiatoa"; "Deggiatoa"; "Heggiatoa"; "Peggiatoa".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 2; DSM: 2; UNIQEM: 1.
  • 🧍 According to Komarek and Golubic (1990) originally assigned to Cyanobacteria but probably belonging to Bacteria ("nom. cons, among bacteria, against Trevisan, 1842"). Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🧍 Conserved name (Judicial Opinion 13). No counterpart given against which the name is conserved. Publication: Judicial Commission. Judicial Opinion No. 14. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1954; 4:156-158.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "BGGT" 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: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Beggiatoa alba (Vaucher 1803) Trevisan 1845 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, lectotype	correct name
    "Beggiatoa amethystina" Welwitsch 1946	not validly published	preferred name
    "Beggiatoa arctoalpina" Skuja 1964	not validly published	preferred name
    "Beggiatoa cyanescens" Welwitsch 1946	not validly published	preferred name
    Beggiatoa leptomitoformis Dubinina et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Beggiatoa nivea" Rabenhorst 1865	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Beggiatoa punctata" (Corda 1835) Trevisan 1842	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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