Species ***Actinomyces* *israelii***

Name: Actinomyces israelii (Kruse 1896) Lachner-Sandoval 1898 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. israelii, of Israel, to honor Professor James Israel, a German surgeon, who was one of the original describers of the organism

Gender: masculine

Type strains: ATCC 12102; CCUG 18307; CIP 103259; DSM 43320; JCM 12964; NCTC 12972

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X82450 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Lachner-Sandoval V. Über Strahlenpilze. Inaugural Dissertation Strassburg. Universitäts Buchdruckerei Von Carl Georgi, Bonn, 1898.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

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.
  Notes:
  - The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

Parent taxon: Actinomyces Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lachner-Sandoval V. Über Strahlenpilze. Inaugural Dissertation Strassburg. Universitäts Buchdruckerei Von Carl Georgi, Bonn, 1898.

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Species Actinomyces israelii

Species ***Actinomyces* *israelii***