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. 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: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mzabimycetaceae Saker et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively 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.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Tang et al. (2011). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Actinopolyspora Gochnauer et al. 1975 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloactinomyces Lai et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halopolyspora Lai et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mzabimyces Saker et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Actinopolysporales Goodfellow and Trujillo 2015

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 1876