Name: "Myxobacter" Thaxter 1892

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: My.xo.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Myxobacter

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Myxobacter-), my-kso-BAK-ter

Original publication: Thaxter R. On the Myxobacteriaceae, a new order of Schizomycetes. Botanical Gazette 1892; 17:389-406.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Thaxter (1892) assigned this genus to the family "Myxobacteriaceae". Publication: Thaxter R. On the Myxobacteriaceae, a new order of Schizomycetes. Botanical Gazette 1892; 17:389-406.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Myxobacteriae".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MXBT" 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.
  • 🧍 This name was treated in Judicial Opinion 2. Publication: Judicial Commission. Judicial Opinion No. 2. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1951; 1:37-38.

Parent taxon: Polyangiaceae Jahn 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 19177