Name DOI
10.1601/nm.2176
Name
 Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 Watson and Waterbury 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Nitrococcus Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History
The genus Nitrococcus was originally proposed by Watson and Waterbury 1971. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Watson published an emended description of this genus in 1974.
Citation
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Name Abstract for Nitrococcus Watson and Waterbury 1971 emend. Watson 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.2176.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on August 21, 2009.

References

  1. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  2. Watson SW, Waterbury JB. Characteristics of two marine nitrite oxidizing bacteria, Nitrospina gracilis nov. gen. nov. sp. and Nitrococcus mobilis nov. gen. nov. sp. Arch Mikrobiol 1971; 77:203-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408114.
  3. Watson SW. Genus III. Nitrococcus Watson and Waterbury 1971, 224. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 452-453.