Name: Chromatium weissei Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: weis’se.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. weissei, of Weisse, named for J.F.Weisse, a German zoologist

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 2111; DSM 171; Gottingen; SMG 171

Effective publication: Perty M. Zur Kenntnis kleinster Lebensformen I-VIII. Jent and Reinert, Bern, 1852.

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

• Notes:
  • According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "orphan species with designated type strains that were either not deposited in culture collections or whose type strain is currently not available from a recognized culture collection". Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.
  • The type strain DSM 171 is unavailable. Publication: Trueper HG, Imhoff JF. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA: Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.

Parent taxon: Chromatium Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Perty M. Zur Kenntnis kleinster Lebensformen I-VIII. Jent and Reinert, Bern, 1852.

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Record number: 774692