Species Streptomyces aureofaciens

Name: Streptomyces aureofaciens Duggar 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: au’re.us au.re.o.fa’ci.ens L. masc. adj. aureus, golden; L. pres. part. faciens, producing; N.L. part. adj. aureofaciens, golden-producing, referring to the pigment produced

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 10762; ATCC 23884; BCRC 11610; CBS 434.51; CBS 664.68; CCM 3239; CCRC 11610; CECT 3206; CIP 57.11; DSM 40127; HAMBI 1072; HAMBI 313; HUT 6048; HUT 6097; ICMP 499; IFM 1042; IFM 1218; IFM 1219; IFO 12594; IFO 12843; IFO 3712; IMET 43577; JCM 4008; JCM 4624; LMG 5968; NBRC 12594; NBRC 12843; NBRC 3712; NCAIM B.01479; NCIB 8234; NCIMB 8234; NRRL 2209; NRRL B-2183; NRRL B-2657; NRRL B-5404; NRRL ISP-5127; RIA 1129; RIA 57; VKM Ac-771; Waksman 3708

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16S rRNA gene: AB184189 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Duggar B. Aureomycin: a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1948; 51:177-181.

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: Kitasatospora aureofaciens (Duggar 1948) Labeda et al. 2017

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Streptomyces avellaneus Baldacci and Grein 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Kitasatospora aureofaciens (Duggar 1948) Labeda et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Groth et al. 2003 Groth I, Schutze B, Boettcher T, Pullen CB, Rodriguez C, Leistner E, Goodfellow M. Kitasatospora putterlickiae sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil, transfer of Streptomyces kifunensis to the genus Kitasatospora as Kitasatospora kifunensis comb. nov., and emended description of Streptomyces aureofaciens Duggar 1948. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:2033-2040. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:309-311.

Notes:
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Streptomyces avellaneus Baldacci and Grein 1966 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, García-López L, Meier-Kolthoff JP, et al. Genome-based taxonomic classication of the phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2007; 2018:9.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.
- Streptomyces aureofaciens is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species within a separate genus Streptomyces.

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

Assigned by: Duggar B. Aureomycin: a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1948; 51:177-181.

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Record number: 781472