Species Lactobacillus viridescens

Name: Lactobacillus viridescens Niven and Evans 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vi.ri.de.scens. L. part. adj. viridescens, growing green, greening

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 12706; BCRC 11650; CCM 56; CCRC 11650; CCUG 21533; CCUG 30502; CECT 283; CIP 102810; DSM 20410; IAM 13546; JCM 1174; LMG 3507; NCCB 71015; NCDO 1655; NCFB 1655; NCIB 8965; NCIMB 8965; NRIC 1536; NRRL B-1951; VKM B-1528

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16S rRNA gene: AB023236 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Niven CFJ, Evans JB. Lactobacillus viridescens nov. spec., a heterofermentative species that produces a green discoloration of cured meat pigments. J Bacteriol 1957; 73:758-759.

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: Weissella viridescens (Niven and Evans 1957) Collins et al. 1994

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Weissella viridescens (Niven and Evans 1957) Collins et al. 1994	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- Lactobacillus viridescens 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 Lactobacillus.
- On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, this nomenclatural name is incorrectly cited as Lactobacillus viridescens Kandler and Abo-Elnaga 1966 (sic). Publication: Hill LR, Skerman VBD, Sneath PHA. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:508-511.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 2

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Lactobacillus viridescens subsp. minor" Abo-Elnaga and Kandler 1965	not validly published
"Lactobacillus viridescens subsp. halotolerans" Reuter 1970	not validly published

Parent taxon: Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Niven CFJ, Evans JB. Lactobacillus viridescens nov. spec., a heterofermentative species that produces a green discoloration of cured meat pigments. J Bacteriol 1957; 73:758-759.

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Record number: 777409

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