Etymology:
bar’ma.i. N.L. gen. masc. n.barmai, of Barma, named in honour of Panchanan Barma, one of the foremost thinkers of the colonial mufossil North Bengal, India, in the twentieth century, and the principal architect of the Renaissance in Rajbanshi society of Bengal. Regional studies were pioneered by Panchanan Barma. It is appropriate to name this adaptable, stress-tolerant bacterium after Panchanan Barma because the latter was also an adaptable thinker. His ideas on agriculture, education and social welfare establish him as a preeminent scholar
Original publication:
Barman P, Sinha S, Chakraborty R. Leclercia barmai sp. nov., isolated from worm castings of Eisenia fetida, is a urease-positive, 3-nitropropionic acid and glycerol-consuming bacterium. Sci Rep 2025; 15:5615. 🇮🇳
Nomenclatural status:
not validly published
Taxonomic status:
preferred name (not correct name)