Name: Levinea amalonatica Young et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: Gr. pref. a-, not; N.L. n. malonas -atis, malonate; Gr. fem. adj. suff. -ica, suffix used with the sense of pertaining to; N.L. fem. adj. malonatica, pertaining to malonate; N.L. fem. adj. amalonatica, not pertaining to malonate (i.e., not able to utilize malonate)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 9823; ATCC 25405; CCUG 4860; CIP 82.89; DSM 4593; JCM 1661; LMG 7873; NCTC 10805

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM515966 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Young VM, Kenton DM, Hobbs BJ, Moody MR. Levinea, a new genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1971; 21:58-63.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Citrobacter amalonaticus (Young et al. 1971) Brenner and Farmer 1982

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Citrobacter amalonaticus (Young et al. 1971) Brenner and Farmer 1982	homotypic synonym, validly published

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Levinea Young et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Young VM, Kenton DM, Hobbs BJ, Moody MR. Levinea, a new genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1971; 21:58-63.
  • The distinct name Levinea malonatica from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing & Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Parent taxon: Levinea Young et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Young VM, Kenton DM, Hobbs BJ, Moody MR. Levinea, a new genus of the family Enterobacteriaceae. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1971; 21:58-63.

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