Name: Desulfovibrio desulfuricans subsp. desulfuricans (Beijerinck 1895) Postgate and Campbell 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov. (rule 40d)

Basonym: "Spirillum desulfuricans" Beijerinck 1895

Etymology: de.sul.fu’ri.cans. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); N.L. part. adj. desulfuricans, reducing sulfur compounds; from N.L. v. desulfurico, to reduce sulfur

Gender: masculine

Type strain: Adams Essex 6; ATCC 29577; CCUG 34226; CIP 107039; DSM 642; LMG 7529; NCIB 8307; NCIMB 8307; VKM B-1799

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Effective publication: Postgate JR, Campbell LL. Classification of Desulfovibrio species, the nonsporulating sulfate-reducing bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 1966; 30:732-738.

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 of its species (division into subspecies abandoned)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 📠 This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans subsp. aestuarii Postgate and Campbell 1966 (Approved Lists 1980) according to rule 40d. Publication: Postgate JR, Campbell LL. Classification of Desulfovibrio species, the nonsporulating sulfate-reducing bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 1966; 30:732-738.
  • ❗ Desulfovibrio desulfuricans subsp. desulfuricans 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 Desulfovibrio desulfuricans within a separate genus Desulfovibrio.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — 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.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, (Beijerinck 1895) Kluyver and van Niel 1936, was corrected according to the new Rule 40d. Publication: Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780.

Parent taxon: Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (Beijerinck 1895) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Postgate JR, Campbell LL. Classification of Desulfovibrio species, the nonsporulating sulfate-reducing bacteria. Bacteriol Rev 1966; 30:732-738.

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Record number: 775673