Name: Acetobacter aceti (Pasteur 1864) Beijerinck 1898 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Mycoderma aceti" Pasteur 1864

Etymology: a.ce’ti. L. neut. n. acetum, vinegar; L. gen. neut. n. aceti, of vinegar

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15973; CCUG 18122; CIP 103111; DSM 3508; ICMP 8807; IFO 14818; JCM 7641; LMG 1261; LMG 1504; NBRC 14818; NCCB 23001; NCIB 8621; NCIMB 8621

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X74066 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Beijerinck MW. Über die Arten der Essigbakterien. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1898; 4:209-216.

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Mycoderma aceti" Pasteur 1864	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Acetobacter Beijerinck 1898 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Beijerinck MW. Über die Arten der Essigbakterien. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1898; 4:209-216.
  • In the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology eight edition this taxon is cited as Acetobacter aceti (Pasteur 1864) Beijerinck 1900.
  • The Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision) does not envisage the status of the species transferred into subgenera but, according to a Request for an Opinion the status of such species should be that of new combinations. Publication: Euzeby JP. Nomenclature of the subgenera Moraxella and Branhamella and of the nine species included in these subgenera and proposal to modify rule 34a of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision). Request for an opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1939-1941.
  • The subgenus Acetobacter appears in Validation List no. 17 (publication date: 15 April 1985). The nomenclatural type of this subgenus is cited as Acetobacter (subgen. Acetobacter) aceti. However Acetobacter (subgen. Acetobacter) aceti is not listed in Validation List no. 17 and this name seems inadvertently to have been omitted from this list. This error has been corrected by Euzéby and Kudo. The date of valid publication of this name is that of List no. 17 (15 April 1985). Publication: Euzeby JP, Kudo T. Corrigenda to the validation lists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1933-1938.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acetobacter aceti subsp. aceti (Pasteur 1864) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym of its species (division into subspecies abandoned)
    Acetobacter aceti subsp. liquefaciens (Asai 1935) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acetobacter aceti subsp. orleanensis (Henneberg 1906) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acetobacter aceti subsp. xylinus corrig. (Brown 1886) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acetobacter aceti subsp. xylinum (Brown 1886) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: Acetobacter Beijerinck 1898 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Beijerinck MW. Über die Arten der Essigbakterien. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1898; 4:209-216.

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