Species Brevibacterium ammoniagenes

Name: Brevibacterium ammoniagenes (Cooke and Keith 1927) Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacterium ammoniagenes" Cooke and Keith 1927

Etymology: am.mo.ni.a.ge.nes. Gr. suff. -genes, forming; N.L. part. adj. ammoniagenes, ammonia-producing [probably better: ammoniigenes]

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 6871; CCUG 38796; CIP 101283; DSM 20306; IFO 12612; JCM 1305; NBRC 12612; NCCB 60030; NCIB 8143; NCIMB 8143; VKM B-672

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X84440 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Breed RS. The Brevibacteriaceae fam. nov. of order Eubacteriales. Riassunti delle Communicazione VI. Congresso Internazionale di Microbiologia, Roma 1953; 1:13-14.

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: Corynebacterium ammoniagenes (Cooke and Keith 1927) Collins 1987

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Bacterium ammoniagenes" Cooke and Keith 1927	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Corynebacterium ammoniagenes (Cooke and Keith 1927) Collins 1987	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- Brevibacterium ammoniagenes is the correct name instead 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 Brevibacterium.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".

Parent taxon: Brevibacterium Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Breed RS. The Brevibacteriaceae fam. nov. of order Eubacteriales. Riassunti delle Communicazione VI. Congresso Internazionale di Microbiologia, Roma 1953; 1:13-14.

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Record number: 774198

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