Taxonomy sources for bacteria?

Not sure if this fits here, but I appreciate any help.

Long ago I stumbled upon a master’s degree thesis on the metabolism of coumarins by one “Pseudomonas melilotica”. However, when I looked that name up, there were no modern results. I inquired with a couple microbiologist pals and they haven’t heard that name anywhere else, either. Is there a way to check whether that’s a name applied to just one strain (though the paper says otherwise), a synonym of some common Pseudomonas, or something else entirely?

The paper in question: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/7w62fc772.

(Disclaimer: I am not an expert in microbiology.)
On page 28 it says:

The organism used was Pseudomonas melilotica (Blackwood, 1962) Macdonald College culture collection Mac 291. Of the nine strains of Pseudomonas used by Halvorson (1961) Mac 291 was the most active.

The problem is that Blackwood (1962) is cited in the reference section as “Personal communications” and I also checked Halvorson (1961) and the name “Pseudomonas melilotica” is not used anywhere in there, either.

I checked the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) (https://lpsn.dsmz.de/) and the name “Pseudomonas melilotica” is not found in there. In fact, if you Google “pseudomonas melilotica” you only get the masters thesis (plus this forum thread, lol). To me it seems that “Pseudomonas melilotica” is a name given to that particular strain, that was never published anywhere else.

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Thank you so much! That makes sense.

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