Name: Actinokineospora spheciospongiae Kämpfer et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sphe.ci.o.spon’gi.ae N.L. gen. n. spheciospongiae, of/from Spheciospongia the zoological name of a genus of sponge, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the sponge Spheciospongia vagabunda

Gender: feminine

Type strains: CCM 8480; DSM 45935; EG49; LMG 27700

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU318361 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Busse HJ, Abdelmohsen UR, Ahmed S, Hentschel U. Actinokineospora spheciospongiae sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Spheciospongia vagabunda. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:879-884.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1701-1702.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

Parent taxon: Actinokineospora Hasegawa 1988

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Glaeser SP, Busse HJ, Abdelmohsen UR, Ahmed S, Hentschel U. Actinokineospora spheciospongiae sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Spheciospongia vagabunda. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:879-884.

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