Name: Streptomycetes Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Streptomyces, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. masc. pl. n. Streptomycetes, the class of Streptomycetales (nominative plural of Streptomyces)

Gender: masculine

Type order: Streptomycetales Cavalier-Smith 2002

Valid publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:293-295.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Actinomycetes Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Arabobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Arthrobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Actinomycetia Salam et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Actinomycetes Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subdivision "Actinobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subphylum "Actinobacteria". Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Streptomycetales Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Actinomycetes Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Arahal et al. Judicial Opinion No. 122. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5481.
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Screptomycetes"; "Spreptomycetes"; "Streptomrycetes"; "Streptonrycetes".
  • 🧍 Type order classified in the class Actinobacteria. Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). Publication: Tindall BJ. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602.

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