Name: "Prescottella" Jones et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pres.cot.tel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Prescottella, named after John Prescott to celebrate his many contributions towards unravelling the pathogenicity of R. equi

Gender: feminine (stem: Prescottell-)

Type species: "Prescottella equi" (Magnusson 1923) Jones et al. 2013

Original publication: Jones AL, Sutcliffe IC, Goodfellow M. Proposal to replace the illegitimate genus name Prescottia Jones et al. 2013 with the genus name Prescottella gen. nov. and to replace the illegitimate combination Prescottia equi Jones et al. 2013 with Prescottella equi comb. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 103:1405-1407.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Dott W, Martin K, Glaeser SP. Rhodococcus defluvii sp. nov., isolated from wastewater of a bioreactor and formal proposal to reclassify [Corynebacterium hoagii] and Rhodococcus equi as Rhodococcus hoagii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:755-761.

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Record number: 521876
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