Name: Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. estunensis (Carr 1958) De Ley and Frateur 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Acetobacter estunense" Carr 1958

Etymology: es.tun.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. estunensis, pertaining to Estune, probably named after the old English name of the village Long Ashton (Estune), where J.G. Carr isolated the type strain

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 23753; DSM 4493; IFO 13751; JCM 21172; LMG 1626; NBRC 13751; NCIB 8935; NCIMB 8935

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB032349 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: De Ley J, Frateur J. Genus Acetobacter Beijerinck 1898, 215. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, eighth edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1974, p. 276-278.

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: Acetobacter estunensis (Carr 1958) Lisdiyanti et al. 2001

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Acetobacter estunense" Carr 1958	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists, distinct rank
    Acetobacter estunensis (Carr 1958) Lisdiyanti et al. 2001	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • ❗ Acetobacter pasteurianus subsp. estunensis is the correct name instead if this subspecies is regarded as a separate subspecies (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another subspecies whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate species Acetobacter pasteurianus within a separate genus Acetobacter.
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Acetobacter pasteurianus (Hansen 1879) Beijerinck and Folpmers 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: De Ley J, Frateur J. Genus Acetobacter Beijerinck 1898, 215. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, eighth edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1974, p. 276-278.

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Record number: 772512