Family Streptosporangiaceae
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Streptosporangiaceae Goodfellow et al. 1990, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Streptosporangium Couch 1955 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Streptosporangium, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Streptosporangiaceae, the Streptosporangium family.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 34. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1990, 40, 320-321.
Effective publication: GOODFELLOW (M.), STANTON (L.J.), SIMPSON (K.E.) and MINNIKIN (D.E.): Numerical and chemical classification of Actinoplanes and some related Actinomycetes. J. Gen. Microbiol., 1990, 136, 19-36.
Validation List no. 34 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online
→ Streptosporangiaceae Goodfellow et al. 1990 emend. Ward-Rainey et al. 1997 (complete authorship reads Ward-Rainey, Rainey and Stackebrandt).
Type genus: ¤ Streptosporangium Couch 1955 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Streptosporangium, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Streptosporangiaceae, the Streptosporangium family.
Reference: STACKEBRANDT (E.), RAINEY (F.A.) and WARD-RAINEY (N.L.): Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 479-491.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Streptosporangiaceae Goodfellow et al. 1990 emend. Zhi et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Streptosporangium Couch 1955 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Streptosporangium, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Streptosporangiaceae, the Streptosporangium family.
Reference: ZHI (X.Y.), LI (W.J.) and STACKEBRANDT (E.): An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 589-608.
Original article in IJSEM Online
