Name DOI
10.1601/nm.2713
Name
 Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Jin et al. 2020
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History
The genus Azotobacter was originally proposed by Beijerinck 1901. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Johnstone published an emended description of this genus in 1974. Young and Park established this name as a later heterotypic synonym of Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Yang et al. 2013 in 2007.
Citation
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Name Abstract for Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901 emend. Johnstone 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.2713.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on June 13, 2019.

References

  1. Beijerinck MW. Über oligonitrophile Mikroben. Zentralbl Bakteriol Parasitenkd Infektionskr Hyg 1901; 7:561-582.
  2. Johnstone DB. Genus I. Azotobacter Beijerinck 1901, 567. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 254-255.
  3. 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.
  4. Young JM, Park DC. Probable synonymy of the nitrogen-fixing genus Azotobacter and the genus Pseudomonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2894-2901. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64969-0 [PubMed].