Name: Nitrobacter Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. nitras (gen. nitratis), nitrate; N.L. pref. nitro-, pertaining to nitrate (in compound words); N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Nitrobacter, nitrate rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Nitrobacter-)

Type species: Nitrobacter winogradskyi Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Winogradsky S. Contributions à la morphologie des organismes de la nitrification. Arkhiv Biologicheskikh Nauk (St. Petersbourg) 1892; 1:87-137.

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, conserved name

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

Parent taxon: Nitrobacteraceae corrig. Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 516179
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