Species Amycolatopsis speibonae
Name: Amycolatopsis speibonae Everest et al. 2015
Etymology: spei.bo’nae L. n. spes -ei, hope; L. adj. bonus, good; N.L. fem. adj. speibonae, of good hope, to indicate Cape Town, the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, the source of the soil from which the type strain was isolated
Type strains: DSM 46660; JS72; NRRL B-24958
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16S rRNA gene accession number: KF771257
Effective publication:
Everest GJ, le Roes-Hill M, Rohland J, Enslin S, Meyers PR. Amycolatopsis roodepoortensis sp. nov. and Amycolatopsis speibonae sp. nov.: antibiotic-producing actinobacteria isolated from South African soils. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2014; 67:813-818. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 163. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1105-1111.
Nomenclatural status: validly published
Taxonomic status: correct name
Parent taxon: Amycolatopsis Lechevalier et al. 1986
Assigned by:
Everest GJ, le Roes-Hill M, Rohland J, Enslin S, Meyers PR. Amycolatopsis roodepoortensis sp. nov. and Amycolatopsis speibonae sp. nov.: antibiotic-producing actinobacteria isolated from South African soils. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2014; 67:813-818.
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