Species Acinetobacter lwoffi

Name: Acinetobacter lwoffi (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Moraxella lwoffii" corrig. Audureau 1940

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15309; CCM 5581; CCUG 33984; CIP 110687; CNCTC 6167; DSM 2403; JCM 6840; LMG 1029; NCAIM B.01101; NCCB 73001; NCTC 5866

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X81665 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Brisou J, Prevot AR. [Studies on bacterial taxonomy. X. The revision of species under Acromobacter group]. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1954; 86:722-728.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Acinetobacter lwoffii corrig. (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Moraxella lwoffii" corrig. Audureau 1940	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Acinetobacter lwoffii corrig. (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
Acinetobacter mesopotamicus Acer et al. 2026	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Moraxella lwoffi" Audureau 1940	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling

Notes:
- ⏰ According to Nemec (2022), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Acinetobacter mesopotamicus Acer et al. 2026. Publication: Nemec A. Acinetobacter. In: Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Wiley, Unknown City, 2022, p. 1-78. 🇨🇿
- 😷 The taxon name shown here has no assigned risk group, but is the original uncorrected spelling of Acinetobacter lwoffii corrig. (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980), which has a risk group (Swiss Confederation) above 1. These are therefore two spellings of the same name that should be treated identically for practical purposes. — The taxon name shown here has no assigned risk group, but is the original uncorrected spelling of Acinetobacter lwoffii corrig. (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980), which has a risk group (Germany) above 1. These are therefore two spellings of the same name that should be treated identically for practical purposes. — The taxon name shown here has no assigned risk group, but is the original uncorrected spelling of Acinetobacter lwoffii corrig. (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980), which has a risk group (Taiwan) above 1. These are therefore two spellings of the same name that should be treated identically for practical purposes.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 67 times in PubMed until 2026-08-13.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.

Parent taxon: Acinetobacter Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Brisou J, Prevot AR. [Studies on bacterial taxonomy. X. The revision of species under Acromobacter group]. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1954; 86:722-728.

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Record number: 73144

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