
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.1312
Name	Agrobacterium atlanticum Rüger and Höfle 1992
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Rüger and Höfle 1992
Preferred Name	Ruegeria atlantica
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.1312
Type Strain representative organism	1480^T (=NBRC 15792 =IAM 14463 =CECT 4292 =ATCC 700000 =IFO 15792 =CIP 105975 =DSM 5823)


Proper Form	Agrobacterium atlanticum Rüger and Höfle 1992
Nomenclatural History	The species Agrobacterium atlanticum was originally described and validly published by Rüger and Höfle 1992. Uchino et al. established this name as an earlier heterotypic synonym of Agrobacterium meteori Rüger and Höfle 1992 in 1998. In 1998, Uchino et al. established Agrobacterium atlanticum as the basonym of Ruegeria atlantica (Rüger and Höfle 1992) Uchino et al. 1999 emend. Hördt et al. 2020 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Agrobacterium atlanticum Rüger and Höfle 1992.April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.1312.
Source File	10.1601/nm.1312.xml

References

Rüger HJ, Höfle MG. Marine star-shaped-aggregate-forming bacteria: Agrobacterium atlanticum sp. nov.; Agrobacterium meteori sp. nov.; Agrobacterium ferrugineum sp. nov., nom. rev.; Agrobacterium gelatinovorum sp. nov., nom. rev.; and Agrobacterium stellulatum sp. nov., nom. rev. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:133-143. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-1-133 [PubMed].
Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J. Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: Proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1998; 44:201-210. [PubMed].