Empedobacter

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Empedobacter

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Empedobacter (ex Prévot 1961) Vandamme et al. 1994, gen. nov., nom. rev.
Type species: ¤ Empedobacter brevis (Holmes and Owen 1982) Vandamme et al. 1994.
Synonym: "Empedobacter" Prévot 1961.
Etymology: Gr. adj. empedos, fixed, immovable; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Empedobacter, nonmotile rod
Reference: VANDAMME (P.), BERNARDET (J.F.), SEGERS (P.), KERSTERS (K.) and HOLMES (B.): New perspectives in the classification of the flavobacteria: description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1994, 44, 827-831.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Empedobacter brevis (Holmes and Owen 1982) Vandamme et al. 1994, comb. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain ATCC 43319 = CCUG 7320 = CIP 103104 = IFO (now NBRC) 14943 = JCM 21064 = LMG 4011 = NCTC 11099.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AM177497.
Basonym: ¤ Flavobacterium breve (ex Lustig 1890) Holmes and Owen 1982.
Other synonyms: "Bacillus brevis" Lustig 1890, "Bacterium breve" (Lustig 1890) Chester 1901, "Flavobacterium brevis" (sic) (Lustig 1890) Bergey et al. 1923, "Pseudobacterium brevis" (sic) (Lustig 1890) Krasil'nikov 1949, "Empedobacter breve" (sic) (Lustig 1890) Prévot 1961, "Bacillus canicolis brevis" Cornil and Babes 1890, "Bacillus canalis parvus" Eisenberg 1891, "Bacterium canalis parvus" (sic) (Eisenberg 1891) Chester 1897, "Bacterium canale" Mez 1898.
Etymology: L. masc. adj. brevis, short.
Reference: VANDAMME (P.), BERNARDET (J.F.), SEGERS (P.), KERSTERS (K.) and HOLMES (B.): New perspectives in the classification of the flavobacteria: description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1994, 44, 827-831.
Original article in IJSEM Online