Name: Amorphosporangium Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.mor.pho.spor.an.gi’um. Gr. masc./fem. adj. amorphos, without form, shapeless; N.L. neut. n. sporangium, sporangium; from Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed and, in biology, a spore; from Gr. neut. n. angeîon, vessel; N.L. neut. n. Amorphosporangium, irregularly shaped sporangium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Amorphosporangi-), a-mor-p^ho-spor-an-GI-um

Type species: Amorphosporangium auranticolor Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Couch JN. Some new genera and species of the Actinoplanaceae. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 1963; 79:53-70.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Actinoplanes Couch 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Symbioplanes Roman et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Ampullaria" Couch 1963	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Ampullariella Couch 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Paractinoplanes Roman et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Amorphoplanes Roman et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Actinoplanes Couch 1950 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Winogradskya Roman et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • 🧕 Goodfellow and Williams (1983) assigned this genus to the uncategorized "Actinoplanetes" Goodfellow and Williams 1983. Publication: Goodfellow M, Williams ST. Ecology of actinomycetes. Annu Rev Microbiol 1983; 37:189-216.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Actinoplanes Couch 1950 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stackebrandt E, Kroppenstedt RM. Union of the genera Actinoplanes Couch, Ampullariella Couch, and Amorphosporangium Couch in a redefined genus Actinoplanes. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1987; 9:110-114. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Amophosporangium".
  • ❗ Amorphosporangium is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; IFO: 2; ATCC: 2; JCM: 2; NBRC: 2; NRRL: 1; VKM: 1; HAMBI: 1; NCIMB: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "AMSP" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Amorphosporangium auranticolor Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Amorphosporangium globisporum Thiemann 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Micromonosporaceae Krassilnikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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. 🇩🇪

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