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

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-ke-to-BAK-ter a-KE-ti, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15973; CCUG 18122; CIP 103111; DSM 3508; ICMP 8807; IFO 14818; JCM 7641; LMG 1261; LMG 1504; NBIMCC 8850; NBRC 14818; NCCB 23001; NCIB 8621; NCIMB 8621

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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

• 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.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "default: 1 Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1; orleanensis: 1 Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 208 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of other species in the genus.
  • 🧍 Plant pathogenic according to Bull et al. (2007). Publication: Bull CT, De Boer SH, Denny TP, Firrao G, Fischer Le Saux M, Saddler GS, Scortichini M, Stead DE, Takikawa Y. Comprehensive list of names of plant pathogenic bacteria, 1980-2007. Journal of Plant Pathology 2010; 92:551-592. 🇺🇸
  • 🧍 In the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology eight edition this taxon is cited as Acetobacter aceti (Pasteur 1864) Beijerinck 1900. Publication: De Ley J, Frateur J. Genus Acetobacter Beijerinck 1898, 215. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, eighth edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 276-278.
  • 🧍 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
    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. xylinum (Brown 1886) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Acetobacter aceti subsp. xylinus corrig. (Brown 1886) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

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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