Name: Curtobacterium Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: Cur.to.bac.te.ri.um. L. masc. adj. curtus, shortened; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Curtobacterium, a short rod
Gender: neuter (stem: Curtobacteri-)
Type species: Curtobacterium citreum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Yamada and Komagata 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective 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 under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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: 14
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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Record number: 515449