Name: Spirillospora Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spi.ril.lo’spo.ra. Gr. fem. n. speîra, a spiral; N.L. neut. dim. n. spirillum, a short spiral; Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed and, in biology, a spore; N.L. fem. n. Spirillospora, an organism with spores in spirals

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Spirillospor-), spi-ril-LO-spo-ra

Type species: Spirillospora albida Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Couch NJ. Some new genera and species of the Actinoplanaceae. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 1963; 79:53-70.

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Goodfellow and Williams (1983) assigned this genus to the uncategorized "Maduromycetes" Goodfellow and Williams 1983. Publication: Goodfellow M, Williams ST. Ecology of actinomycetes. Annu Rev Microbiol 1983; 37:189-216.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Spririllospora".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 3; IFO: 1; DSM: 1; CGMCC: 1; CBS: 1; NBRC: 1; VKM: 1; NRRL: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SPSO" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Spirillospora albida Couch 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Spirillospora rubra (ex Schäfer 1973) Vobis and Kothe 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Spirillospora tritici Song et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermomonosporaceae Rainey et al. 1997

Assigned by: Zhang Z, Kudo T, Nakajima Y, Wang Y. Clarification of the relationship between the members of the family Thermomonosporaceae on the basis of 16S rDNA, 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer and 23S rDNA sequences and chemotaxonomic analyses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:373-383.

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