Name: Pseudonocardiaceae Embley et al. 1989

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Pseu.do.no.car.di.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Pseudonocardia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Pseudonocardiaceae, the Pseudonocardia family

Pronunciation, gender: pse͡u-do-no-kar-di-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Pseudonocardia Henssen 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Embley MT, Smida J, Stackebrandt E. The phylogeny of mycolate-less wall chemotype IV Actinomycetes and description of Pseudonocardiaceae fam. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1988; 11:44-52. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 29. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:205-206.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 39
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 48
Total number of child taxa: 50

Parent taxon: Pseudonocardiales Labeda and Goodfellow 2015

Assigned by: Labeda DP, Goodfellow M. Order XIII. Pseudonocardiales 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. 1301. 🇬🇧

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Record number: 1137
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