Name: "Spirillum" Hassall 1845

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spi.ril’lum. N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, small spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Spirillum, a small spiral

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Spirill-), spi-RIL-lum

Type species: "Spirillum jenneri" Hassall 1845

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Hassall AH. Hist. Brit. Freshw. Algae 1. Highley & Bailliere, London, 1845.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont 1892. Publication: Bourrelly P. Les algues d'eau douce. Initiation à la systématique. Tome III: Les Algues bleues et rouges. Les Eugléniens, Peridiniens et Cryptomonadines. Boubée & Cie, Paris, 1970.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bpirillum"; "Rpirillum"; "Sinrillum"; "Spfrillum"; "Spirdlum"; "Spiriilum"; "Spirilfum"; "Spirilium"; "Spirillmn"; "Spirilluni"; "Spirillur"; "Spirillurn"; "Spiriltum"; "Spiritlum"; "Spirlllum"; "Spirzllum"; "Spitillum"; "Spriillum"; "Sprillum"; "Spririllum".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Spirillum Ehrenberg 1832 (Approved Lists 1980).
  • 🧍 Komarek and Golubic (1990) emphasize that this name is a pre-starting-point synonym. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 30

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Spirillum anulus" Williams and Rittenberg 1957	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum beijerinckii" Williams and Rittenberg 1957	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum delicatum" Leifson 1962	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum desulfuricans" Beijerinck 1895	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum duttoni" Novy and Knapp 1906	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum giesbergeri" Williams and Rittenberg 1957	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum gracile" Canale-Parola et al. 1966	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum halophilum" Watanabe 1959	not validly published	preferred name
    "Spirillum hiroshimense" Terasaki 1973	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum itersonii" Giesberger 1936	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum japonicum" Watanabe 1959	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum jenneri" Hassall 1845	not validly published	synonym
    "Spirillum kriegii" Podkopaeva et al. 2006	not validly published	preferred name
    "Spirillum linum" Williams and Rittenberg 1957	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum lipoferum" Beijerinck 1925	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum maritimum" Watanabe 1959	not validly published	preferred name
    "Spirillum metamorphum" Terasaki 1961	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum minutulum" Watanabe 1959	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum multiglobuliferum" Terasaki 1973	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum pelagicum" Terasaki 1973	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum peregrinum" Pretorius 1963	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum pleomorphum" Inoue and Komagata 1976	not validly published	preferred name
    "Spirillum polymorphum" Williams and Rittenberg 1957	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum psychrophilum" Terasaki 1973	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum pusillum" Terasaki 1973	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum putridiconchylium" Terasaki 1961	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum rubrum" Esmarch 1887	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum sinuosum" Williams and Rittenberg 1957	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum sputigenum" Flügge 1886	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists	synonym
    "Spirillum winogradskii" Podkopaeva et al. 2006	not validly published	synonym

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Record number: 20443