Name: Rhodococcus Hansgirg 1884

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

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

Gender: masculine (stem: Rhodococc-)

Type species: Rhodococcus caldariorum Hansgirg 1884

Valid publication: Hansgirg A. Bemerkungen zur Systematik einiger Süsswasseralgen. Österr. Bot. Z. 1884; 34:314.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ilhodococcus"; "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 Wang et al. (2010), Kim et al. (2022), Yassin and Schaal (2005), Kusuma et al. (2024), Chaudhary and Kim (2018). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 😷 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".
  • 🧍 Name validly published under the ICN 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: 1
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)	correct name

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

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.

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Record number: 18128