Name: Rhodococcus Hansgirg 1884

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Rho.do.coc’cus. N.L. masc. n. Rhodococcus, a red coccus

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Rhodococc-), r^ho-do-KOK-kus

Type species: Rhodococcus caldariorum Hansgirg 1884

Valid publication: Hansgirg A. Bemerkungen zur Systematik einiger Süsswasseralgen. Österr. Bot. Z. 1884; 34:313-318.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Chroococcus Nägeli 1849

Risk group: 2

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Chroococcus Nägeli 1849	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Chroococcus Nägeli 1849. Publication: Hansgirg A. Ueber den Polymorphismus der Algen. Botanisches Centralblatt 1885; 22:246-406.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ilhodococcus"; "Irhodococcus"; "Ithodococcus"; "Rbodococcus"; "Rhadococcus"; "Rhcdococcus"; "Rhdococcus"; "Rhedococcus"; "Rhocdococcus"; "Rhoclococcus"; "Rhodacaccus"; "Rhodccoccus"; "Rhodecoccus"; "Rhodocaccus"; "Rhodocccus"; "Rhodoccoccus"; "Rhodoccocus"; "Rhodoccous"; "Rhodoccus"; "Rhodocnccus"; "Rhodococccus"; "Rhodococciis"; "Rhodococcirs"; "Rhodococclus"; "Rhodococcm"; "Rhodococcous"; "Rhodococctm"; "Rhodococcua"; "Rhodococeus"; "Rhodococous"; "Rhodococus"; "Rhodococuus"; "Rhodocoecus"; "Rhodocoocus"; "Rhodocuccus"; "Rhododcoccus"; "Rhododoccus"; "Rhododococcus"; "Rhodoeoecus"; "Rhodoooccus"; "Rltodococcus"; "Rlwdococcus"; "Rlzodococcus"; "Rodococcus"; "Thodococcus".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980).
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Rocourt J, McLauchlin J. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Listeria, Brochothrix, and Erysipelothrix: Minutes of the Closed Meeting, 20 August 1996, Jerusalem, Israel. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1997; 47:1273-1273.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Rocourt J, J M. Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Listeria, Brochothrix, and Erysipelothrix: Minutes of the Closed Meeting, 20 August 1996, Jerusalem, Israel. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1997; 47:1273-1273.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Briglia et al. (1996), Wang et al. (2010), Vazquez-Boland et al. (2026), Kim et al. (2022), Kusuma et al. (2024). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • ❗ Rhodococcus 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 risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 Name validly published under the ICNafp that is a homonym of a name validly published under the ICNP. Publication: McNeill J, Barrie FR, Buck WR, Demoulin V, Greuter W, Hawksworth DL, Herendeen PS, Knapp S, Marhold K, Prado J, et al. International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants (Melbourne Code). Koeltz Scientific Books, Königstein, 2012.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Rhodococcus caldariorum Hansgirg 1884	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	synonym

Parent taxon: Chroococcaceae Rabenhorst 1863

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿

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Record number: 18128