Species Bacteroides melaninogenicus

Name: Bacteroides melaninogenicus (Oliver and Wherry 1921) Roy and Kelly 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacterium melaninogenicum" Oliver and Wherry 1921

Etymology: me.la.ni.no.ge.ni.cus. N.L. neut. n. melaninum, melanin; Gr. masc. adj. genikos, producing; from Gr. masc. n. genetês, a begetter; N.L. masc. adj. melaninogenicus, melanin producing (black pigment is due to protoheme and not to melanin, as originally thought.)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 25845; CCUG 4944; CCUG 4944 B; CIP 105346; DSM 7089; Finegold B282; JCM 6325; NCTC 12963; VPI 15087; VPI 4196

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB547693 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Roy TE, Kelly CD. Genus VIII. Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers. In: Bergey DH, Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 5th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1939, p. 556-558.

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: synonym

Correct name: Prevotella melaninogenica (Oliver and Wherry 1921) Shah and Collins 1990

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacterium melaninogenicum" Oliver and Wherry 1921	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Prevotella melaninogenica (Oliver and Wherry 1921) Shah and Collins 1990	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Holdeman and Johnson 1982 Holdeman LV, Johnson JL. Description of Bacteroides loescheii sp. nov. and emendation of the descriptions of Bacteroides melaninogenicus (Oliver and Wherry) Roy and Kelly 1939 and Bacteroides denticola Shah and Collins 1981. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1982; 32:399-409.

Notes:
- Bacteroides melaninogenicus is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Bacteroides.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Bacteroides melaninogenicus subsp. intermedius Holdeman and Moore 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Bacteroides melaninogenicus subsp. melaninogenicus (Oliver and Wherry 1921) Holdeman and Moore 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned subspecies
"Bacteroides melaninogenicus subsp. asaccharolyticus" Holdeman and Moore 1970	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Bacteroides melaninogenicus subsp. macacae Slots and Genco 1980	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Roy TE, Kelly CD. Genus VIII. Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers. In: Bergey DH, Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 5th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1939, p. 556-558.

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Record number: 773956

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