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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Nocardia atlantica"

Name: "Nocardia atlantica" (Humm and Shepard 1946) Waksman 1957

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Etymology: a.tlan’ti.ca. L. fem. adj. atlantica, pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … a-TLAN-ti-ka, feminine

Original publication: Waksman SA. Order V Actinomycetales. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 778.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Waksman SA. Order V Actinomycetales. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 778.

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Record number: 62433
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