Name: Capsularis Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: L. fem. dim. n. capsula, a small box or chest; N.L. masc./fem. adj. suff. -aris, suffix denoting pertaining to; N.L. masc. n. Capsularis, intended to mean a capsulated bacterium

Gender: masculine

Type species: Capsularis zoogleoformans corrig. (Weinberg et al. 1937) Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Prévot AR. Études de systématique bactérienne. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1938; 60:285-307.

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

• Notes:
  • Prevot (1940) assigned this genus to the family "Ristellaceae" Prevot 1938. Publication: Prévot AR. Manuel de Classification et de Détermination des Bactéries Anaérobies, 1st ed. Masson, Paris, 1940.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Cato EP, Kelley RW, Moore WEC, Holdeman LV. Bacteroides zoogleoformans (Weinberg, Nativelle, and Prévot 1937) corrig. comb. nov.: emended description. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1982; 32:271-274.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Prevotella Shah and Collins 1990. Publication: Shah HN, Collins DM. Prevotella, a new genus to include Bacteroides melaninogenicus and related species formerly classified in the genus Bacteroides. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:205-208.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Bacterium" Ehrenberg 1832. Publication: Weinberg M, Nativelle R, Prévot AR. Les microbes anaérobies. Masson and Cie., Paris, 1937.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Iupsularis".
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CPSL" 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: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Capsularis zoogleiformans (Weinberg et al. 1937) Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)	orthographic variant	misspelling
    Capsularis zoogleoformans corrig. (Weinberg et al. 1937) Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Prevotellaceae Krieg 2012

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Record number: 517195