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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Streptomyces capitiformicae

Name: Streptomyces capitiformicae Jiang et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ca.pi.ti.for.mi’cae. L. neut. n. caput, head; L. fem. n. formica, an ant; N.L. gen. fem. n. capitiformicae, of the head of an ant

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 1H-SSA4; CGMCC 4.7403; DSM 104537

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX777629 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Jiang S, Piao C, Yu Y, Cao P, Li C, Yang F, Li M, Xiang W, Liu C. Streptomyces capitiformicae sp. nov., a novel actinomycete producing angucyclinone antibiotics isolated from the head of Camponotus japonicus Mayr. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:118-124.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:979-981.

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: Jiang S, Piao C, Yu Y, Cao P, Li C, Yang F, Li M, Xiang W, Liu C. Streptomyces capitiformicae sp. nov., a novel actinomycete producing angucyclinone antibiotics isolated from the head of Camponotus japonicus Mayr. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:118-124.

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Record number: 796406
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