Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Vibrio nigripulchritudo

Name: Vibrio nigripulchritudo (Baumann et al. 1971) Baumann et al. 1981

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Beneckea nigripulchritudo corrig. Baumann et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: ni.gri.pul.chri.tu.do. L. masc. adj. niger, black; L. fem. n. pulchritudo, a beauty; N.L. fem. n. nigripulchritudo, a black beauty, which refers to its striking blue-black colonies (nominative in apposition)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 27043; CAIM 323; CCUG 28586; CIP 103195; DSM 21607; LMG 3896

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16S rRNA gene: X74717 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Baumann P, Baumann L, Bang SS, Woolkalis MJ. Reevaluation of the taxonomy of Vibrio, Beneckea, and Photobacterium: abolition of the genus Beneckea. Curr. Microbiol. 1980; 4:127-132.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 6. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1981; 31:215-218.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Vibrio Pacini 1854 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Baumann P, Baumann L, Bang SS, Woolkalis MJ. Reevaluation of the taxonomy of Vibrio, Beneckea, and Photobacterium: abolition of the genus Beneckea. Curr. Microbiol. 1980; 4:127-132.

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Record number: 785163
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