Effective publication:
Yabuuchi E, Kosako Y, Yano I, Hotta H, Nishiuchi Y. Transfer of two Burkholderia and an Alcaligenes species to Ralstonia gen. Nov.: Proposal of Ralstonia pickettii (Ralston, Palleroni and Doudoroff 1973) comb. Nov., Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith 1896) comb. Nov. and Ralstonia eutropha (Davis 1969) comb. Nov. Microbiol Immunol 1995; 39:897-904.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 57. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:625-626.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Risk group:
2
Notes:
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Ralstoniaceae".Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Burkholderia Yabuuchi et al. 1993.Publication:
Yabuuchi E, Kosako Y, Oyaizu H, Yano I, Hotta H, Hashimoto Y, Ezaki T, Arakawa M. Proposal of Burkholderia gen. nov. and transfer of seven species of the genus Pseudomonas homology group II to the new genus, with the type species Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 1992; 36:1251-1275.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pseudomonas Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Ralston E, Palleroni NJ, Dodoroff M. Pseudomonas pickettii, a new species of clinical origin related to Pseudomonas solanacearum. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1973; 23:15-19.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rabtonia"; "Raistonia"; "Ralostonia"; "Ralsonia"; "Ralsotnia"; "Ralsthonia"; "Ralstollia"; "Ralstoma"; "Ralstsonia"; "Rastomia"; "Rastonia"; "Rdstonia"; "Rulstonia".
💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lu et al. (2023), Coenye et al. (2003). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 18; LMG: 18; DSM: 16; JCM: 15; ATCC: 9; CIP: 8; NBRC: 5; NCIMB: 4; NCPPB: 4; NRRL: 3.
😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2".
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 20 Total number of child taxa: 22
Assigned by:
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Burkholderiaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 575.
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