Species Streptomyces flocculus

Name: Streptomyces flocculus (Duché 1934) Waksman and Henrici 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Actinomyces flocculus" Duché 1934

Etymology: L. masc. n. floccus, a flock of wool; N.L. masc. dim. adj. flocculus, like a small flock of wool

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 25453; BCRC 12068; CBS 686.69; CCRC 12068; DSM 40327; HUT 6615; IFO 13041; IMET 43522; JCM 4476; NBRC 13041; NRRL 2960; NRRL B-2465; NRRL B-2843; NRRL ISP-5327; RIA 1233

16S rRNA gene: AB122772 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Waksman SA, Henrici AT. Family III. Streptomycetaceae Waksman and Henrici. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 929-980.

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Streptomyces albus (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Actinomyces rangoon" Erikson 1935	heterotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
"Actinomyces almquisti" Duché 1934	heterotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Streptomyces rangoonensis corrig. (Erikson 1935) Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published
Streptomyces almquistii (Duché 1934) Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published
Streptomyces gibsonii (Erikson 1935) Waksman and Henrici 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published
"Actinomyces flocculus" Duché 1934	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
"Actinomyces gibsonii" Erikson 1935	heterotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Streptomyces albus (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published
Streptomyces rangoon (Erikson 1935) Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, orthographic variant

Notes:
- According to Labeda et al. (2014), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Streptomyces albus (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Labeda DP, Doroghazi JR, Ju KS, Metcalf WW. Taxonomic evaluation of Streptomyces albus and related species using multilocus sequence analysis and proposals to emend the description of Streptomyces albus and describe Streptomyces pathocidini sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:894-900.
- Streptomyces flocculus 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: Waksman SA, Henrici AT. Family III. Streptomycetaceae Waksman and Henrici. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 929-980.

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Record number: 781663