Name: Proteeae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Tribe

Proposed as: new tribe

Etymology: Gr. masc. n. Prôteus, type genus of the tribe; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -eae, ending to denote a tribe; N.L. fem. pl. n. Proteeae, the Proteus tribe

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Proteus Hauser 1885 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

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: correct name

• Notes:
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this tribe to the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Castellani and Chalmers (1919) assigned this tribe to the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
  • Castellani and Chalmers (1919) assigned the genus Proteus Hauser 1885 (Approved Lists 1980) to this tribe. Publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
  • The type genus of this tribe has alternatively been placed in the tribe "Bactereae". Publication: Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Final Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1920; 5:191-229.
  • The type genus of this tribe has alternatively been placed in the tribe "Proteae". Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.

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Record number: 6055