Genus Curtobacterium

Name: Curtobacterium Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: cur’tus L. masc. adj. curtus, shortened; L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Curtobacterium, a short rod

Gender: neuter

Type species: Curtobacterium citreum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Yamada K, Komagata K. Taxonomic studies on coryneform bacteria. V. Classification of coryneform bacteria. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology 1972; 18:417-431.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- Goodfellow and Williams (1983) assigned this genus to the uncategorized "Actinobacteria" Goodfellow and Williams 1983. Publication: Goodfellow M, Williams ST. Ecology of Actinomycetes. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1983; 37:189-216.
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Brevibacterium Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Komagata K, Iizuka H. New species of Brevibacterium isolated from rice. (Studies on the microorganisms of cereal grains, Part VII). Journal of the Agricultural Chemical Society of Japan 1964; 38:496-502.
- This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Curtobacteria".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 13

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Curtobacterium albidum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Curtobacterium ammoniigenes Aizawa et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Curtobacterium citreum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens (Hedges 1922) Collins and Jones 1984	validly published	correct name
Curtobacterium ginsengisoli Kim et al. 2008	validly published	synonym
Curtobacterium herbarum Behrendt et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
Curtobacterium luteum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
"Curtobacterium oceanosedimentum" (Carty and Litchfield 1978) Kim et al. 2009	not validly published
Curtobacterium plantarum Dunleavy 1989	validly published	correct name
"Curtobacterium psychrophilum" Inoue and Komagata 1976	not validly published
Curtobacterium pusillum (Iizuka and Komagata 1965) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
Curtobacterium saperdae (Lysenko 1959) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
Curtobacterium testaceum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995

Assigned by: Park YH, Suzuki K, Yim DG, Lee KC, Kim E, Yoon J, Kim S, Kho YH, Goodfellow M, Komagata K. Suprageneric classification of peptidoglycan group B actinomycetes by nucleotide sequencing of 5S ribosomal RNA. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1993; 64:307-313.

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