Name: Blastobacter Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Blas.to.bac’ter. Gr. masc. n. blastos, bud shoot; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Blastobacter, a budding rod

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Blastobacter-), blas-to-BAK-ter

Type species: Blastobacter henricii Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Zavarzin GA. Budding bacteria. Mikrobiologiya 1961; 30:952-975.

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

• Emendations:
  • Sly 1985 Sly LI. Emendation of the genus Blastobacter Zavarzin 1961 and description of Blastobacter natatorius sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1985; 35:40-45.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Bradyrhizobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VII. Bradyrhizobiaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 438.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Balstobacter"; "Blasfobacfer"; "Blastohacter"; "Blustobacter". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Blastobacteria".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie P, Martinez-Romero E. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium Minutes of the meeting, 7 September 2014, Tenerife, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:516-520.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: de Lajudie PM, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee for the Taxonomy of Rhizobium and Agrobacterium Minutes of the meeting, Budapest, 25 August 2016. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2485-2494.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Lindstrom K, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium: minutes of the meeting, 7 September 2010, Geneva, Switzerland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:3089-3093.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 6; ATCC: 4; LMG: 3; VKM: 3; HAMBI: 2; JCM: 2; IFO: 1; CIP: 1; UQM: 1; NBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "BSBT" 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: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Blastobacter aggregatus Hirsch and Müller 1986	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Blastobacter capsulatus Hirsch and Müller 1986	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Blastobacter denitrificans Hirsch and Müller 1986	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Blastobacter henricii Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Blastobacter natatorius Sly 1985	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Blastobacter viscosus" Loginova and Trotsenko 1979	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Nitrobacteraceae corrig. Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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