Name: "Metallogenium" Aristovskaya 1961

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Gender: neuter (stem: Metallogeni-)

Original publication: Aristovskaya TV. Accumulation of iron by decomposing organo-mineral complexes of humid matter by microorganisms. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1961; 136:954-957.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Metallogeniaceae" Zavarzin 1961. Publication: Zavarzin GA. Budding bacteria. Mikrobiologiya 1961; 30:952-975.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Melallogenium"; "Metdlogenium".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MLOG" 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.
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

Parent taxon: "Metallogeniaceae" Zavarzin 1961

Assigned by: Zavarzin GA. Budding bacteria. Mikrobiologiya 1961; 30:952-975.

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Record number: 18116