title: Replacement of ATCC 25944T, the current type strain of Melittangium lichenicola, with ATCC 25946. Request for an opinion.
abstract: It is proposed that the type strain of Melittangium lichenicola (Thaxter 1892) McCurdy 1971 is ATCC 25946 (=DSM 14877), which was originally designated as a reference strain by McCurdy, and not ATCC 25944(T), as given in the Approved Lists. Swarm appearance, myxospore morphology and 16S rRNA gene sequence data suggest that ATCC 25946 is a representative of the species Melittangium lichenicola, while strain ATCC 25944 is clearly a member of the Myxococcus-Corallococcus clade. A Request for an Opinion to this effect is made to the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes.
authors.affiliation: Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany. ela@dsmz.de
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Cathrin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spröer
mesh_terms: D020564:Deltaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D009626:Terminology as Topic
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S