Name: Melittangium Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.litt.an.gi’um. Gr. fem. n. melitta, bee; Gr. neut. n. angeîon, vessel; N.L. neut. n. Melittangium, a vessel resembling a honeycomb

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Melittangi-), me-litt-an-GI-um

Type species: Melittangium boletus Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Jahn E. Beiträge zur botanischen Protistologie. I. Die Polyangiden. Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Leipzig, 1924.

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:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Cystobacteraceae McCurdy 1970 (Approved Lists 1980). 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1948) assigned this genus to the family Polyangiaceae Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980). 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: "Lelittanyiwn"; "Mellitangium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; ATCC: 2; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MLNG" 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: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Melittangium alboraceum (Peterson 1959) McCurdy 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Melittangium boletus Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Melittangium lichenicola corrig. (Thaxter 1892) McCurdy 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Melittangium lichenicolum (Thaxter 1892) McCurdy 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Archangiaceae Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lang E, Schumann P, Tindall BJ, Mohr KI, Sproer C. Reclassification of Angiococcus disciformis, Cystobacter minus and Cystobacter violaceus as Archangium disciforme comb. nov., Archangium minus comb. nov. and Archangium violaceum comb. nov., unification of the families Archangiaceae and Cystobacteraceae, and emended descriptions of the families Myxococcaceae and Archangiaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4032-4042. 🇩🇪

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