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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54 (2004), 2437; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.02955-0
© 2004 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Proposal to acknowledge Beijerinck as the original author of the species Pantoea agglomerans. Request for an Opinion

Jane Edwards, Ellen Baque and Jane Tang

American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA

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Jane Tang
jtang{at}atcc.org


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The name ‘Bacillus agglomerans’ was first published by Beijerinck in 1888. Ewing and Fife changed the name to Enterobacter agglomerans in 1972 as a new combination, acknowledging that Beijerinck had been the original author and making the new full name Enterobacter agglomerans (Beijerinck 1888Go) Ewing and Fife 1972Go. Beijerinck's name was omitted from the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in 1980, which listed only Ewing and Fife as the authors. The current listings in the List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature follow the Approved Lists and omit Beijerinck from the names for both Enterobacter agglomerans and Pantoea agglomerans. It is proposed that Beijerinck be acknowledged as the original author of this species by having his name reinstated in its full name, Pantoea agglomerans (Beijerinck 1888Go) Gavini et al. 1989, and a Request for an Opinion is put forward to the Judicial Commission.

Published online ahead of print on 13 August 2004 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.02955-0.


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The name ‘Bacillus agglomerans’ was first published by Beijerinck in 1888 (Beijerinck, 1888Go). In the Index Bergeyana, Buchanan and colleagues judged that name and Krasil'nikov's transfer of the name to Pseudomonas agglomerans to be validly published (Krasil'nikov, 1949Go; Buchanan et al., 1966Go). Ewing & Fife (1972)Go changed the name to Enterobacter agglomerans in 1972 as a new combination, acknowledging that Beijerinck had been the original author and making the new full name Enterobacter agglomerans (Beijerinck 1888Go) Ewing and Fife 1972Go.

Beijerinck's name was omitted from the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in 1980, which listed only Ewing and Fife as the authors (Skerman et al., 1980Go). The Supplement to Index Bergeyana included Beijerinck in the name (Gibbons et al., 1981Go). The current listings in the List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature (http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/ – updated 1 August 2004) follow the Approved Lists and omit Beijerinck from the names for both Enterobacter agglomerans and Pantoea agglomerans.

We propose that Beijerinck be acknowledged as the original author of this species by having his name reinstated in its full name, Pantoea agglomerans (Beijerinck 1888Go) Gavini et al. 1989, and put forward a Request for an Opinion to the Judicial Commission.


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Beijerinck, M. W. (1888). Cultur des Bacillus radicicola aus den Knöllchen. Bot Ztg 46, 740–750.

Buchanan, R. E., Holt, J. G. & Lessel, E. F., Jr (editors) (1966). Index Bergeyana: an Annotated Alphabetic Listing of Names of the Taxa of the Bacteria. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.

Ewing, W. H. & Fife, M. A. (1972). Enterobacter agglomerans (Beijerinck) comb. nov. (the herbicola-lathyri bacteria). Int J Syst Bacteriol 22, 4–11.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

Gibbons, N. E., Pattee, K. B. & Holt, J. G. (editors) (1981). Supplement to Index Bergeyana. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.

Krasil'nikov, N. A. (1949). Guide to the Bacteria and Actinomycetes. Moscow: Akademiia Nauk.

Skerman, V. B. D., McGowan, V. & Sneath, P. H. A. (1980). Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 30, 225–420.[Free Full Text]





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