Name: Prauserella Kim and Goodfellow 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Prau.se.rel’la L. fem. dim. suff. -ella, diminutive ending; N.L. fem. dim. n. Prauserella, named after Helmut Prauser, a German microbiologist who made many contributions to actinomycete systematics

Gender: feminine

Type species: Prauserella rugosa (Lechevalier et al. 1986) Kim and Goodfellow 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kim SB, Goodfellow M. Reclassification of Amycolatopsis rugosa Lechevalier et al. 1986 as Prauserella rugosa gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:507-512.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:937-939.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Li et al. 2003 Li WJ, Xu P, Tang SK, Xu LH, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1545-1549. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Goodfellow M, Lechevalier MP. Genus Nocardia Trevisan 1889, 9AL. In: Sneath PHA, Mair NS, Sharpe ME, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 2, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1986, p. 1459-1471.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Amycolatopsis Lechevalier et al. 1986. Publication: Lechevalier MP, Prauser H, Labeda DP, Ruan JS. Two new genera of nocardioform actinomycetes: Amycolata gen. nov. and Amycolatopsis gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1986; 36:29-37.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 16

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Prauserella aidingensis Li et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella alba Li et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella coralliicola Wu et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella endophytica Liu et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella flava Li et al. 2009	validly published	synonym
    Prauserella flavalba Li et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella halophila Li et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella isguenensis Saker et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella marina Wang et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella muralis Schäfer et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella oleivorans Dastgheib et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella rugosa (Lechevalier et al. 1986) Kim and Goodfellow 1999	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella salsuginis Li et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella sediminis Li et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella shujinwangii Liu et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Prauserella soli Almutairi 2015	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudonocardiaceae Embley et al. 1989

Assigned by: 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.

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