Name: Lamprobacter Gorlenko et al. 1988

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Lam.pro.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. lampros, bright, brilliant; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Lamprobacter, brilliant rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Lamprobacter-), lam-pro-BAK-ter

Type species: Lamprobacter modestohalophilus Gorlenko et al. 1988

Effective publication: Gorlenko VM, Krassilnikova EN, Kikina OG, Tatarinova NY. The new motile purple sulfur bacteria Lamprobacter modestohalophilus nov. gen., nov. sp. with gas vacuoles. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Biol. 1979; 5:755-767.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 25. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:220-222.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Gorlenko et al. 2014 Gorlenko VM, Briantseva IA, Lunina ON, Turova TP. Phylogenetic position of the purple sulfur bacterium Lamprobacter modestohalophilus determined based on the data on new strains of the species. Mikrobiologiia 2014; 83:829-837. 🇷🇺
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2021-06-05 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lampobacter".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Phototrophic Bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 4 August 2015, Tubingen, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5211. 🇧🇪
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "LMBT" 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.
  • 🧍 See also Gorlenko et al. (1988). Publication: Gorlenko VM, Imhoff JF. Lamprobacter. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Wiley, Unknown City, 2015, p. 1-4. 🇩🇪

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
    Lamprobacter modestohalophilus Gorlenko et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lamprobacter roseus" (Anil Kumar et al. 2007) Gorlenko et al. 2014	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gorlenko VM, Krassilnikova EN, Kikina OG, Tatarinova NY. The new motile purple sulfur bacteria Lamprobacter modestohalophilus nov. gen., nov. sp. with gas vacuoles. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Biol. 1979; 5:755-767.

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