Name: Streptosporangiaceae Goodfellow et al. 1990

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Streptosporangium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Streptosporangiaceae, the Streptosporangium family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Streptosporangium Couch 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Goodfellow M, Stanton LJ, Simpson KE, Minnikin DE. Numerical and chemical classification of Actinoplanes and some related Actinomycetes. J. Gen. Microbiol. 1990; 136:19-36.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 34. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:320-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Kudo et al. 1993 Kudo T, Itoh T, Miyadoh S, Shomura T, Seino A. Herbidospora gen. nov., a new genus of the family Streptosporangiaceae Goodfellow et al. 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:319-328.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.
    • This name was not found in the expected IJSEM notification list.
  • Ward-Rainey et al. 1997 Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.
    Notes:
    • Complete authorship reads: Ward-Rainey, Rainey and Stackebrandt.
  • Zhi et al. 2009 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. 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.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 5 genera in the family.
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 genera in the family. — Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 genus from the family.
  • Ay et al. 2020 Ay H, Saygin H, Sahin N. Phylogenomic revision of the family Streptosporangiaceae, reclassification of Desertactinospora gelatinilytica as Spongiactinospora gelatinilytica comb. nov. and a taxonomic home for the genus Sinosporangium in the family Streptosporangiaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2562-2572. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this family to the suborder Streptosporangineae Ward-Rainey et al. 1997. 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.
  • Stackebrandt et al. (1997) assigned this family to the suborder Streptosporangiineae corrig. Ward-Rainey et al. 1997. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Planopolyspora Petrolini et al. 1993 to this family. 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.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Actinoplanetaceae corrig. Couch 1955 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Streptosporungiaceue".
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Ay et al. (2020), Zhou et al. (2012). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 212; JCM: 153; NBRC: 137; IFO: 100; ATCC: 94; KCTC: 81; NRRL: 80; VKM: 62; CGMCC: 56; BCRC: 35.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 19
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 20
Total number of child taxa: 25

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acrocarpospora Tamura et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Astrosporangium" Ntai et al. 2006	not validly published
    Bailinhaonella Feng et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desertactinospora corrig. Saygin et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Desertiactinospora Saygin et al. 2019	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Herbidospora Kudo et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbispora Nonomura and Ohara 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microtetraspora Thiemann et al. 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nonomuraea corrig. Zhang et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nonomuria Zhang et al. 1998	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Planobispora Thiemann and Beretta 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Planomonospora Thiemann et al. 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Planotetraspora Runmao et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sebekia" Dietz and Li 1982	not validly published
    Sinosporangium Zhang et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphaerimonospora Mingma et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphaerisporangium corrig. Ara and Kudo 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphaerosporangium Ara and Kudo 2007	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Spongiactinospora Li et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Streptosporangium Couch 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoactinospora Zhou et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermobispora Wang et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermocatellispora Zhou et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermopolyspora (ex Krassilnikov and Agre 1964) Goodfellow et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermostaphylospora Wu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Streptosporangiales Goodfellow 2015

Assigned by: Goodfellow M. Order XV. Streptosporangiales 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. 1805.

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