Species Streptomyces ghanaensis

Name: Streptomyces ghanaensis Wallhäusser et al. 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc./fem. adj. ghanaensis, of or belonging to Ghana, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 14672; CBS 544.70; CECT 3210; DSM 40746; IFO 15414; JCM 4963; NBRC 15414; NRRL B-12104

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB184662 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Wallhäusser KH, Nesemann G, Präve P, Steigler A. Moenomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Fermentation and isolation. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1966; 1965:734-736.

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: Streptomyces viridosporus Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Streptomyces viridosporus Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 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.

Notes:
- According to Goodfellow et al. (2017), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Streptomyces viridosporus Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Goodfellow M, Busarakam K, Idris H, Labeda DP, Nouioui I, Brown R, Kim BY, Del Carmen Montero-Calasanz M, Andrews BA, Bull AT. Streptomyces asenjonii sp. nov., isolated from hyper-arid Atacama Desert soils and emended description of Streptomyces viridosporus Pridham et al. 1958. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:1133-1148.
- Streptomyces ghanaensis 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: Wallhäusser KH, Nesemann G, Präve P, Steigler A. Moenomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Fermentation and isolation. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1966; 1965:734-736.

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Record number: 781687