Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Streptomyces atacamensis

Name: Streptomyces atacamensis Santhanam et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.ta.cam.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. atacamensis, of or belonging to an extreme hyper-arid site in the Atacama Desert of north-west Chile, the source of the soil from which the strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: C60; CGMCC 4.7018; DSM 42065; KACC 15492

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16S rRNA gene: EU551717 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Santhanam R, Okoro CK, Rong X, Huang Y, Bull AT, Weon HY, Andrews BA, Asenjo JA, Goodfellow M. Streptomyces atacamensis sp. nov., isolated from an extreme hyper-arid soil of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2680-2684.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:399-400.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Streptomyces Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Santhanam R, Okoro CK, Rong X, Huang Y, Bull AT, Weon HY, Andrews BA, Asenjo JA, Goodfellow M. Streptomyces atacamensis sp. nov., isolated from an extreme hyper-arid soil of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2680-2684.

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Record number: 790269
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