Name: Aeromonas punctata (Zimmermann 1890) Snieszko 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus punctatus" Zimmermann 1890

Etymology: punc.ta’ta L. neut. n. punctum, a point, small spot; L. fem. adj. suff. -ata, suffix used in adjectives meaning provided with; N.L. fem. adj. punctata, full of points

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 15468; CCUG 25939; DSM 7323

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16S rRNA gene: X74674 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Snieszko SF. Genus IV. Aeromonas Kluyver and van Niel 1936. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, seventh edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 189-193.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Aeromonas caviae (ex Eddy 1962) Popoff 1984

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Aeromonas caviae (ex Eddy 1962) Popoff 1984	homotypic synonym, validly published
    Aeromonas hydrophila subsp. anaerogenes Schubert 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published, distinct rank
    "Bacillus punctatus" Zimmermann 1890	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    "Pseudomonas caviae" Scherago 1936	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Aeromonas punctata subsp. caviae (Scherago 1936) Schubert 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • This name was subject to a Request for an Opinion. Publication: Holmes B, Farmer Iii JJ. Correction of the type strain of Aeromonas punctata (Zimmermann 1890) Snieszko 1957 and of A. punctata subsp. punctata from ATCC 15468^T to NCMB 74^T (=NCIMB 74^T= ATCC 23309^T). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2155-2157.
  • Aeromonas punctata (Zimmermann 1890) Snieszko 1957 (Approved Lists 1980), Aeromonas punctata subsp. caviae (Scherago 1936) Schubert 1964 (Approved Lists 1980) and Aeromonas caviae (ex Eddy 1962) Popoff 1984 have the same type strain! In the eighth edition of the Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology [1], the type strain of Aeromonas punctata is given as "Neotype strain NCMB 74" (at the present time, the strain NCMB 74 = ATCC 23309 is the type strain of Aeromonas eucrenophila Schubert and Hegazi 1988 emend. Huys et al. 1997), and the type strain of Aeromonas punctata subsp. caviae is ATCC 15468. In 1986, in 1990, in 1994 and in 1998, the Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Vibrionaceae considered that a request should be made to the Judicial Commission to correct the type strain of Aeromonas punctata [2, 3, 4, 5]. However, no request for an opinion has been published. Publication: Schubert RHW. Genus II. Aeromonas Kluyver and van Niel 1936, 398. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, eighth edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1974, p. 345-348.
  • See also: Publication: Holmes B. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF VIBRIONACEAE: Minutes of the meetings (Minute 22), 4 and 7 July 1994, Prague, Czech republic. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1998; 48:1467-1469.
  • See also: Publication: Nair GB, Holmes B. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF VIBRIONACEAE: Minutes of the closed meeting, 19 May 1998, Atlanta, GA, USA. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:1945-1947.
  • See also: Publication: Farmer JJ. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF VIBRIONACEAE: Minutes of the meetings, 8 and 11 September 1986, Manchester, England. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:210-212.
  • See also: Publication: Holmes B. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF VIBRIONACEAE: Minutes of the meetings, 18 and 20 September 1990, Osaka, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1992; 42:199-201.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aeromonas punctata subsp. caviae (Scherago 1936) Schubert 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Aeromonas punctata subsp. punctata (Zimmermann 1890) Schubert 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	orphaned subspecies

Parent taxon: Aeromonas Stanier 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Snieszko SF. Genus IV. Aeromonas Kluyver and van Niel 1936. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, seventh edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 189-193.

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