Name: Pasteuria Metchnikoff 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pas.teu’ri.a. N.L. fem. n. Pasteuria, named after Louis Pasteur, French savant and scientist

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Pasteuri-), pas-TE͡U-ri-a

Type species: Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Metchnikoff E. Pasteuria ramosa un représentant des bactéries à division longitudinale. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1888; 2:165-170.

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Pasteuriaceae Laurent 1890 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Laurent E. Sur le microbe des nodosités des légumineuses. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Paris 1890; 111:754-756.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Alicyclobacillaceae". 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pasleuria"; "Pasreuria"; "Pasteura"; "Pasteurdla"; "Paszeuria"; "Patseuria"; "Pgsteuria"; "Pusteuria".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "PSIA" 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: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Pasteuria aldrichii" Giblin-Davis et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Pasteuria hartismeri" Bishop et al. 2007	not validly published	preferred name
    Pasteuria nishizawae Sayre et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pasteuria penetrans (ex Thorne 1940) Sayre and Starr 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, conserved name	correct name
    Pasteuria thornei Starr and Sayre 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Pasteuria usgae" Giblin-Davis et al. 2003	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Pasteuriaceae Laurent 1890 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20. 🇧🇪

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