“…It was later referred to as A. calcoaceticus RAG-1 Gutnick, 1985, 1986;Minas et al, 1988;Reddy et al, 1989;Leahy et al, 1993;Zhang et al, 1997;Sullivan et al, 1999;Johri et al, 2002) or A. lwoffii RAG-1 (Alon and Gutnick, 1993; Gutnick, 2001, 2003), A. junii (Menezes et al, 2005), and A. radioresistens (Pessione et al, 1996(Pessione et al, , 2003Pessione and Giunta, 1997). In parallel, Acinetobacter venetianus strain VE-C3 was isolated from a Venice lagoon and described by Di Cello et al (1997). Vaneechoutte et al (1999a) established that the strain previously recognized as RAG-1 and A. venetianus VE-C3 belonged to the same genomic species.…”