Name: Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: car.ne.gie.a’na. N.L. fem. adj. carnegieana, of Carnegiea, the generic name of a cactus

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 33259; NCPPB 439

Effective publication: Lightle PC, Standring ET, Brown JG. A bacterial necrosis of the giant cactus. Phytopathology 1942; 32:303-313.

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: Pectobacterium carnegieanum corrig. (Standring 1942) Brenner et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pectobacterium carnegieanum corrig. (Standring 1942) Brenner et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pectobacterium carnegieana (Standring 1942) Brenner et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • Erwinia carnegieana 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 Erwinia.
  • The authority of the taxon name (Standring) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Lightle et al.).
  • Nom. dub., Opinion IJSB 38:133. Publication: Alcorn SM, Orum TV. Request for an opinion. Rejection of the names Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 and Pectobacterium carnegieana (Standring 1942) Brenner, Steigerwalt, Miklos and Fanning 1973. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1988; 38:132-134.
  • In a request for an opinion, S.M. Alcorn and V.T. Orum [1] presented evidence that the type strain of Erwinia carnegieana (syn. Pectobacterium carnegieana) is a contaminant and that no culture corresponds to the description attached to this name and requested that both of these species names be rejected as nomen dubium. Publication: Alcorn SM, Orum TV. Request for an opinion. Rejection of the names Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 and Pectobacterium carnegieana (Standring 1942) Brenner, Steigerwalt, Miklos and Fanning 1973. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1988; 38:132-134.
  • In a request for an opinion, S.M. Alcorn and V.T. Orum [1] presented evidence that the type strain of Erwinia carnegieana (syn. Pectobacterium carnegieana) is a contaminant and that no culture corresponds to the description attached to this name and requested that both of these species names be rejected as nomen dubium. The Judicial Commission [2, 3] concluded that the species will simply disappear from use without the need to place the names on the list of nomina rejicienda. Publication: Wayne LG. JUDICIAL COMMISSION: Minutes of the meeting, 14 September 1990, Osaka, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:185-187.
  • See also: Publication: Wayne LG. Actions of the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology on requests for opinions published between January 1985 and July 1993. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1994; 44:177-178.

Parent taxon: Erwinia Winslow et al. 1920 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lightle PC, Standring ET, Brown JG. A bacterial necrosis of the giant cactus. Phytopathology 1942; 32:303-313.

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Record number: 783793