Name: Acinetobacter Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ci.ne.to.bac.ter. Gr. pref. a-, not; Gr. v. kineô, to set in motion, move; N.L. adj. acinetus, unable to move; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Acinetobacter, nonmotile rod

Gender: masculine

Type species: Acinetobacter calcoaceticus (Beijerinck 1911) Baumann et al. 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Brisou J, Prévot AR. Études de systématique bactérienne. X. Révision des espèces réunies dans le genre Achromobacter. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1954; 86:722-728.

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:
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Micrococcus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Beijerinck MW. Pigments as products of oxidation by bacterial action. Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Amsterdam) 1911; 13:1066-1077.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Acenitobacter"; "Acetinobacter"; "Acienetobacter"; "Acientobacter"; "Acinelobacter"; "Acineobacter"; "Acinetobacacter"; "Acinetobacer"; "Acinetobucter"; "Acinetohacter"; "Acinotobacter"; "Acitietobacter"; "Acnetinobacter"; "Aconetobacter"; "Actinetobacter"; "Adnetobacter"; "Aeinetobacter".
  • This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Acinetobacteres"; "Acinetobacteria".
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Nemec et al. (2021), Nemec et al. (2016), Li et al. (2015), Qin et al. (2020), Smet et al. (2014). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05151 (N = 1).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 73
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 77
Total number of child taxa: 99

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acinetobacter albensis Krizova et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter antiviralis" Lee et al. 2009	not validly published
    Acinetobacter apis Kim et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter baretiae Alvarez-Perez et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter baumannii Bouvet and Grimont 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter baylyi Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter beijerinckii Nemec et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter bereziniae Nemec et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter bohemicus Krizova et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter boissieri Álvarez-Pérez et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter bouvetii Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter brisouii Anandham et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter calcoaceticus (Beijerinck 1911) Baumann et al. 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter celticus Radolfova-Krizova et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter chengduensis Qin et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter chinensis Hu et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter colistiniresistens Nemec et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter courvalinii Nemec et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter cumulans Qin et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter defluvii Hu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter dijkshoorniae Cosgaya et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acinetobacter dispersus Nemec et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter equi Poppel et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter gandensis Smet et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter geminorum Wolf et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter gerneri Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter glutaminasificans" Wlodawer et al. 1975	not validly published
    Acinetobacter grimontii Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acinetobacter guangdongensis Feng et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acinetobacter guerrae Carvalheira et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter guillouiae Nemec et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter gyllenbergii Nemec et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter haemolyticus (ex Stenzel and Mannheim 1963) Bouvet and Grimont 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter halotolerans Dahal et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter harbinensis Li et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter hemolyticus" Banerjee et al. 2005	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter idrijaensis" Campos-Guillen et al. 2014	not validly published
    Acinetobacter indicus Malhotra et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter johnsonii Bouvet and Grimont 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter junii Bouvet and Grimont 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter kanungonis Das et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter kookii Choi et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter kyonggiensis" Lee and Lee 2010	not validly published
    Acinetobacter lactucae Rooney et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter lanii Zhu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter larvae Liu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter lwoffii (Audureau 1940) Brisou and Prévot 1954 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter marinus" Yoon et al. 2007	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter mesopotamicus" Acer et al. 2020	not validly published
    Acinetobacter modestus Nemec et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter movanagherensis" Moore et al. 2014	not validly published
    Acinetobacter nectaris Álvarez-Pérez et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter nosocomialis Nemec et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter oleivorans" Kang et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter oryzae" Chaudhary et al. 2012	not validly published
    Acinetobacter pakistanensis Abbas et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Acinetobacter parvus Nemec et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Acinetobacter pediculi" Boumbanda Koyo et al. 2019	not validly published
    Acinetobacter piscicola Liu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter pittii Nemec et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter plantarum" Du et al. 2016	not validly published
    Acinetobacter pollinis Alvarez-Perez et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter populi Li et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter portensis Carvalheira et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter pragensis Radolfova-Krizova et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter proteolyticus Nemec et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter pseudolwoffii Nemec et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter pullicarnis" Han et al. 2020	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter pullorum" Elnar et al. 2020	not validly published
    Acinetobacter puyangensis Li et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter qingfengensis Li et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter radioresistens Nishimura et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter rathckeae Alvarez-Perez et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter refrigeratorensis" Feng et al. 2014	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter refrigeratoris" Feng et al. 2015	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter rhizosphaerae" Gulati et al. 2009	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter rongchengensis" Qin et al. 2021	not validly published
    Acinetobacter rudis Vaz-Moreira et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter schindleri Nemec et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter seifertii Nemec et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter seohaensis" Yoon et al. 2007	not validly published
    "Acinetobacter septicus" Kilic et al. 2008	not validly published
    Acinetobacter shaoyimingii Zhu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter sichuanensis Qin et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter soli Kim et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter stercoris Pulami et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter tandoii Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter terrae Nemec et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter terrestris Nemec et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter tianfuensis" Qin et al. 2021	not validly published
    Acinetobacter tjernbergiae Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter towneri Carr et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter ursingii Nemec et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter variabilis Krizova et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acinetobacter venetianus" Di Cello et al. 1997	not validly published
    Acinetobacter venetianus (ex Di Cello et al. 1997) Vaneechoutte et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter vivianii Nemec et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter wanghuae Zhu et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acinetobacter wuhouensis Hu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Moraxellaceae Rossau et al. 1991

Assigned by: Rossau R, Van Landschoot A, Gillis M, De Ley J. Taxonomy of Moraxellaceae fam. nov., a new bacterial family to accommodate the genera Moraxella, Acinetobacter, and Psychrobacter and related organisms. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:310-319.

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