Name: Myxococcus disciformis Thaxter 1904 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: dis.ci.for’mis. Gr. masc. n. diskos, anything quoit-shaped, a disk; L. adj. suff. -formis -is -e, -like, in the shape of; from L. fem. n. forma, figure, shape, appearance; N.L. masc./fem. adj. disciformis, disk-shaped

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 33172; CMU 1; DSM 52716

16S rRNA gene: GU207873 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Thaxter R. Notes on the Myxobacteriaceae. Botanical Gazette 1904; 37:405-416.

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: Archangium disciforme (Thaxter 1904) Lang et al. 2015

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Archangium disciforme (Thaxter 1904) Lang et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Angiococcus disciformis (Thaxter 1904) Hook et al. 1980	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Cystobacter disciformis" (Thaxter 1904) Reichenbach 2005	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ❗ Myxococcus disciformis is the correct name instead 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 Myxococcus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Myxococcus Thaxter 1892 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Thaxter R. Notes on the Myxobacteriaceae. Botanical Gazette 1904; 37:405-416.

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Record number: 784449