Name: "Bacteridium luteum" Schroeter 1872

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lu.te’um. L. neut. adj. luteum, yellow

Type strain: ATCC 4698; BCRC 80739; CCM 169; CCUG 5858; CECT 5053; CGMCC 1.2299; CIP A270; DSM 20030; HAMBI 1399; HAMBI 26; IEGM 391; IFO 3333; JCM 1464; LMG 4050; NBIMCC 1439; NBIMCC 8934; NBRC 3333; NCCB 78001; NCIB 9278; NCIMB 9278; NCTC 2665; NRRL B-287; VKM B-1314

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16S rRNA gene: AJ536198 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Schroeter J. Über einige durch Bacterien gebildete Pigmente. (1872). In: Cohn F (eds), Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen, Max Müller, Breslau, 1875, p. 109-126.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Micrococcus luteus (Schroeter 1872) Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Micrococcus yunnanensis Zhao et al. 2009	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Micrococcus aloeverae Prakash et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Micrococcus luteus (Schroeter 1872) Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Huang et al. (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Micrococcus yunnanensis Zhao et al. 2009. Publication: Huang CH, Wang CL, Liou JS, Lee AY, Blom J, Huang L, Watanabe K. Reclassification of Micrococcus aloeverae and Micrococcus yunnanensis as later heterotypic synonyms of Micrococcus luteus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3512-3518.
  • ⏰ According to Huang et al. (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Micrococcus aloeverae Prakash et al. 2014. Publication: Huang CH, Wang CL, Liou JS, Lee AY, Blom J, Huang L, Watanabe K. Reclassification of Micrococcus aloeverae and Micrococcus yunnanensis as later heterotypic synonyms of Micrococcus luteus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3512-3518.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".

Parent taxon: [Bacteridium]

Assigned by: Schroeter J. Über einige durch Bacterien gebildete Pigmente. (1872). In: Cohn F (eds), Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen, Max Müller, Breslau, 1875, p. 109-126.

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Record number: 3968