Species Nocardia cellulans

Name: Nocardia cellulans Metcalfe and Brown 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: N.L. part. adj. cellulans, cell-making

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 12830; CCUG 50776; CFBP 4267; CIP 103404; DSM 43189; DSM 43879; HAMBI 95; IFO 15516; JCM 9965; LMG 16221; NBRC 15516; NRRL B-2768; VKM Ac-1412

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16S rRNA gene: X79455 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Metcalfe G, Brown ME. Nitrogen fixation by new species of Nocardia. J Gen Microbiol 1957; 17:567-572.

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: Cellulosimicrobium cellulans (Metcalfe and Brown 1957) Schumann et al. 2001

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Cellulomonas cartalyticum" Carta 1973	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
Cellulosimicrobium cellulans (Metcalfe and Brown 1957) Schumann et al. 2001	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Cellulomonas cellulans (Metcalfe and Brown 1957) Stackebrandt and Keddie 1988	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Brevibacterium fermentans Chatelain and Second 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Cellulomonas cartae Stackebrandt and Kandler 1980	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Brevibacterium lyticum Takayama et al. 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Oerskovia xanthineolytica Lechevalier 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- According to Stackebrandt and Keddie (1986), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Brevibacterium lyticum Takayama et al. 1960 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stackebrandt E, Keddie RM. Genus Cellulomonas Bergey et al. 1923, 154, emend. mut. char. Clark 1952, 50AL. In: Sneath PHA, Mair NS, Sharpe ME, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 2, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1986, p. 1325-1329.
- According to Stackebrandt et al. (1982), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Brevibacterium fermentans Chatelain and Second 1966 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stackebrandt E, Seiler H, Schleifer KH. Union of the genera Cellulomonas Bergey et al. and Oerskovia Prauser et al. in a redefined genus Cellulomonas. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. 1982; C3:401-409.
- According to Stackebrandt et al. (1982), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Cellulomonas cartae Stackebrandt and Kandler 1980. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Seiler H, Schleifer KH. Union of the genera Cellulomonas Bergey et al. and Oerskovia Prauser et al. in a redefined genus Cellulomonas. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. 1982; C3:401-409.
- According to Stackebrandt et al. (1982), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Oerskovia xanthineolytica Lechevalier 1972 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stackebrandt E, Seiler H, Schleifer KH. Union of the genera Cellulomonas Bergey et al. and Oerskovia Prauser et al. in a redefined genus Cellulomonas. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. 1982; C3:401-409.
- According to Stackebrandt et al. (1982), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of "Cellulomonas cartalyticum" Carta 1973. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Seiler H, Schleifer KH. Union of the genera Cellulomonas Bergey et al. and Oerskovia Prauser et al. in a redefined genus Cellulomonas. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. 1982; C3:401-409.
- Nocardia cellulans 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 Nocardia.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "ht+".

Parent taxon: Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Metcalfe G, Brown ME. Nitrogen fixation by new species of Nocardia. J Gen Microbiol 1957; 17:567-572.

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