Species ***Streptomyces* *sclerotialus***

Name: Streptomyces sclerotialus Pridham 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: nom. nov.

Etymology: scle.ro.ti.a.lus. N.L. neut. n. sclerotium, sclerotium; N.L. masc. adj. sclerotialus, pertaining to sclerotia

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15721; BCRC 13307; CBS 167.62; CCRC 13307; DSM 40269; DSM 43032; IFM 1141; IFO 12246; IFO 13356; IFO 13904; JCM 3039; JCM 4828; KCTC 9065; NBRC 12246; NBRC 13356; NBRC 13904; NRRL B-2317; NRRL ISP-5269; RIA 1317; VKM Ac-1909

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ621608 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Pridham TG. New names and new combinations in the order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917. Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture 1970; 1424:1-55.

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: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Chainia antibiotica Thirumalachar 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic 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:
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

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

Assigned by: Pridham TG. New names and new combinations in the order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917. Bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture 1970; 1424:1-55.

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Record number: 782023

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Species Streptomyces sclerotialus

Species ***Streptomyces* *sclerotialus***