Name DOI
10.1601/nm.4101
Name
 Goodsir 1842 emend. Canale-Parola 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Goodsir 1842 emend. Canale-Parola 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 Goodsir 1842 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Sarcina Goodsir 1842 emend. Canale-Parola 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History
The genus Sarcina was originally proposed by Goodsir 1842. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Canale-Parola published an emended description of this genus in 1974.

The unification of this genus into Clostridium contravenes Rule 51b (2) of the Code because Sarcina has priority over Clostridium. The current taxonomic opinion is that these two genera are not synonymous.
Citation
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Name Abstract for Sarcina Goodsir 1842 emend. Canale-Parola 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.4101.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on August 21, 2017.

References

  1. Canale-Parola E. Genus IV. Sarcina Goodsir 1842, 434. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 527-528.
  2. 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.
  3. Goodsir J. History of a case in which a fluid periodically ejected from the stomach contained vegetable organisms of an undescribed form. Edinburgh Medical Surgery Journal 1842; 57:430-443.
  4. Tindall BJ. Priority of the genus name Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) vs Sarcina Goodsir 1842 (Approved Lists 1980) and the creation of the illegitimate combinations Clostridium maximum (Lindner 1888) Lawson and Rainey 2016 and Clostridium ventriculi (Goodsir 1842) Lawson and Rainey 2016 that may not be used. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4890-4894. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001361 [PubMed].