Name: Actinopolysporaceae Zhi et al. 2009

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ac.ti’no.po.ly.spo.ra’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Actinopolyspora, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Actinopolysporaceae, the Actinopolyspora family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Actinopolyspora Gochnauer et al. 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, 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.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Pseudonocardiaceae Embley et al. 1989

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mzabimycetaceae Saker et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pseudonocardiaceae Embley et al. 1989	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Actinosynnemataceae Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2000	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned this family to the order Actinopolysporales Goodfellow and Trujillo 2015. Publication: Goodfellow M, Trujillo ME. Order II. Actinopolysporales ord. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology vol. 5, 2nd edn., Springer, New York, 2012, p. 162.
  • Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this family to the suborder Actinopolysporineae Zhi et al. 2009. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, 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.
  • Lai et al. (2014) assigned the genus Halopolyspora Lai et al. 2014 to this family. Publication: Lai H, Wei X, Jiang Y, Chen X, Li Q, Jiang Y, Jiang C, Gillerman L. Halopolyspora alba gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2775-2780.
  • Lai et al. (2017) assigned the genus Haloactinomyces Lai et al. 2017 to this family. Publication: Lai H, Jiang Y, Chen X, Li Q, Jiang C, Jiang Y, Wei X. Haloactinomyces albus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the Dead Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1163-1168.
  • Zhi et al. (2009) assigned the genus Actinopolyspora Gochnauer et al. 1975 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, 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.
  • Zhi et al. (2009) assigned the genus "Mzabimyces" to this family. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, 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.
  • The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Pseudonocardiaceae Embley et al. 1989. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • Actinopolysporaceae is the correct name if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

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