Name: Chainia poonensis Thirumalachar 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: poon.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. poonensis, of or belonging to Poona, India, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 15723; BCRC 13311; CBS 295.66; CBS 786.72; CCRC 13311; CGMCC 4.1097; DSM 40596; HAMBI 987; IFO 12556; IFO 13485; IMET 43406; JCM 3071; JCM 3079; JCM 4815; LMG 19326; NBRC 12556; NBRC 13485; NRRL B-2319; NRRL B-2951; NRRL ISP-5596; PCM 2246; RIA 1446; VKM Ac-1715

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16S rRNA gene: AB184103 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kalakoutskii LV, Krassilnikov NA. On formation of sclerotia by actinomycetes and on systematic status of the genus Chainia. In: Rautenshtein YI (eds), Biology of special groups of actinomycetes. Producers of antibiotics. Transactions of the Institute of Microbiology no. 8, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskau, 1960, p. 1-344.

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: synonym

Correct name: Streptomyces poonensis (Thirumalachar 1960) Pridham 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Streptomyces poonensis (Thirumalachar 1960) Pridham 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Chainia poonensis is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Chainia.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Chainia Thirumalachar 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kalakoutskii LV, Krassilnikov NA. On formation of sclerotia by actinomycetes and on systematic status of the genus Chainia. In: Rautenshtein YI (eds), Biology of special groups of actinomycetes. Producers of antibiotics. Transactions of the Institute of Microbiology no. 8, Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskau, 1960, p. 1-344.

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Record number: 774637