Name: Asticcacaulis excentricus Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ex.cen’tri.cus. L. prep. ex, out from the interior of a thing, out of; L. neut. n. centrum, the middle point of a circle, the centre; L. masc. adj. suff. -icus, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; N.L. masc. adj. excentricus, out from the center

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15261; CB 48; CIP 107064; DSM 4724; VKM B-1370

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB016610 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Poindexter JS. BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE CAULOBACTER GROUP. Bacteriol Rev 1964; 28:231-295.

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

Risk group: 1

• 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 Asticcacaulis Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Poindexter JS. BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE CAULOBACTER GROUP. Bacteriol Rev 1964; 28:231-295.

Parent taxon: Asticcacaulis Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Poindexter JS. BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE CAULOBACTER GROUP. Bacteriol Rev 1964; 28:231-295.

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Record number: 773533