Name: Pectobacterium carnegieana (Standring 1942) Brenner et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: car.ne.gie.a’na. N.L. fem. adj. carnegieana, of Carnegiea, the generic name of a cactus (sic)

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 33259; NCPPB 439

Effective publication: Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, Miklos GV, Fanning GR. Deoxyribonucleic acid relatedness among Erwiniae and other Enterobacteriaceae: the soft-rot organisms (Genus Pectobacterium Waldee). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1973; 23:205-216.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Pectobacterium carnegieanum corrig. (Standring 1942) Brenner et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pectobacterium carnegieanum corrig. (Standring 1942) Brenner et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
    Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "PP?". — 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 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 Plant pathogenic according to Bull et al. (2007). Publication: Bull CT, De Boer SH, Denny TP, Firrao G, Fischer Le Saux M, Saddler GS, Scortichini M, Stead DE, Takikawa Y. Comprehensive list of names of plant pathogenic bacteria, 1980-2007. Journal of Plant Pathology 2010; 92:551-592.
  • 🧍 Nomen dubium, request for Opinion IJSB 38:134. Publication: Alcorn SM, Orum TV. Request for an opinion. Rejection of the names Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 and Pectobacterium carnegieana (Standring 1942) Brenner, Steigerwalt, Miklos and Fanning 1973. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1988; 38:132-134.
  • 🧍 In a request for an opinion, S.M. Alcorn and V.T. Orum [1] presented evidence that the type strain of Pectobacterium carnegieana (syn. Erwinia carnegieana) is a contaminant and that no culture corresponds to the description attached to this name and requested that both of these species names be rejected as nomen dubium. Publication: Alcorn SM, Orum TV. Request for an opinion. Rejection of the names Erwinia carnegieana Standring 1942 and Pectobacterium carnegieana (Standring 1942) Brenner, Steigerwalt, Miklos and Fanning 1973. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1988; 38:132-134.
  • 🧍 In a request for an opinion, S.M. Alcorn and V.T. Orum [1] presented evidence that the type strain of Pectobacterium carnegieana (syn. Erwinia carnegieana) is a contaminant and that no culture corresponds to the description attached to this name and requested that both of these species names be rejected as nomen dubium. The Judicial Commission [2, 3] concluded that the species will simply disappear from use without the need to place the names on the list of nomina rejicienda. Publication: Wayne LG. JUDICIAL COMMISSION: Minutes of the meeting, 14 September 1990, Osaka, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:185-187.
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Wayne LG. Actions of the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology on requests for opinions published between January 1985 and July 1993. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1994; 44:177-178.

Parent taxon: Pectobacterium Waldee 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, Miklos GV, Fanning GR. Deoxyribonucleic acid relatedness among Erwiniae and other Enterobacteriaceae: the soft-rot organisms (Genus Pectobacterium Waldee). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1973; 23:205-216.

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