Name: "Sporospirillum" Delaporte 1964

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spo.ro.spi.ril’lum. N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, small spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. Sporospirillum

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Sporospirill-), spo-ro-spi-RIL-lum

Original publication: Delaporte B. [COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LARGE SPORE-FORMING SPIRILLEAE: SPOROSPIRILLUM (SPIRILLUM) PRAECLARUM (COLLIN) N.G., SPOROSPIRILLUM GYRINI N. SP. AND SPOROSPIRILLUM BISPORUM N.SP]. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1964; 107:246-262.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Delaporte (1964) assigned this genus to the family Spirillaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Delaporte B. [COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LARGE SPORE-FORMING SPIRILLEAE: SPOROSPIRILLUM (SPIRILLUM) PRAECLARUM (COLLIN) N.G., SPOROSPIRILLUM GYRINI N. SP. AND SPOROSPIRILLUM BISPORUM N.SP]. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1964; 107:246-262.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sporaspirillum"; "Sporespirillum".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SOSP" 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: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Sporospirillum bisporum" Delaporte 1964	not validly published	preferred name
    "Sporospirillum gyrini" Delaporte 1964	not validly published	preferred name
    "Sporospirillum praeclarum" Delaporte 1964	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 660