Name: "Phytomonas asplenii" Ark and Tompkins 1946

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: ATCC 23835; CCUG 32773; CFBP 3279; CIP 106710; DSM 17133; ICMP 3944; LMG 2137; NCPPB 1947

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Original publication: Ark PA, Tompkins CM. Bacterial leaf blight of bird's-nest fern. Phytopathology 1946; 36:758-761.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Pseudomonas asplenii (Ark and Tompkins 1946) Savulescu 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Pseudomonas fuscovaginae (ex Tanii et al. 1976) Miyajima et al. 1983	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pseudomonas asplenii (Ark and Tompkins 1946) Savulescu 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to Tohya et al. (2020), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Pseudomonas fuscovaginae (ex Tanii et al. 1976) Miyajima et al. 1983. Publication: Tohya M, Watanabe S, Tada T, Tin HH, Kirikae T. Genome analysis-based reclassification of Pseudomonas fuscovaginae and Pseudomonas shirazica as later heterotypic synonyms of Pseudomonas asplenii and Pseudomonas asiatica, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3547-3552.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4421-4424.

Parent taxon: "Phytomonas" Bergey et al. 1923

Assigned by: Ark PA, Tompkins CM. Bacterial leaf blight of bird's-nest fern. Phytopathology 1946; 36:758-761.

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Record number: 4420