Name: Nitrosococcus nitrosus (Migula 1900) Buchanan 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Micrococcus nitrosus" Migula 1900

Etymology: ni.tro’sus. L. masc. adj. nitrosus, full of natron, nitrous

Gender: masculine

Type strain: no culture isolated

Effective publication: Buchanan RE. General Systematic Bacteriology. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1925.

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: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Micrococcus nitrosus" Migula 1900	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• Emendations:
  • Watson 1971 Watson SW. Taxonomic considerations of the family Nitrobacteriaceae Buchanan. Requests for opinions. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1971; 21:254-270.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2020-09-22 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Winogradsky S. Contributions à la morphologie des organismes de la nitrification. Arkhiv Biologicheskikh Nauk (St. Petersbourg) 1892; 1:87-137.
  • 😷 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 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "un-sequenced orphan species where descriptions, illustrations or dead preserved material serve as the type.". Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.

Parent taxon: Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Buchanan RE. General Systematic Bacteriology. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1925.

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Record number: 784478