Species ***Streptomyces* *speleomycini***

Name: Streptomyces speleomycini Preobrazhenskaya and Szabó 1986

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: spe.le.o.my’ci.ni. N.L. neut. n. speleomycinum, speleomycin; N.L. gen. neut. n. speleomycini, of speleomycin, intended to mean spelomycin producing

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: strep-TO-my-kes spe-le-o-MY-ki-ni, masculine

Type strain: B 23

Effective publication: Gauze GF, Preobrazhenskaya TP, Sveshnikova MA, Terekhova LP, Maximova TS. A guide for the determination of actinomycetes. Genera Streptomyces, Streptoverticillium, and Chainia. Nauka, Moscow, URSS, 1983.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 22. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:573-576.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Preobrazhenskaya and Szabó) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Gauze et al.).
- 😷 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 2026-08-13. 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 0 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 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.
- 🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "orphan species with designated type strains that were either not deposited in culture collections or whose type strain is currently not available from a recognized culture collection". Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73. 🇩🇪
- 🧍 Names of the individuals to be credited for Streptomyces speleomycini proposed in reference Gause et al. 1983 were supplied by T.P. Preobrazhenskaya, personal communication to the Associate Editor, IJSB. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

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

Assigned by: Gauze GF, Preobrazhenskaya TP, Sveshnikova MA, Terekhova LP, Maximova TS. A guide for the determination of actinomycetes. Genera Streptomyces, Streptoverticillium, and Chainia. Nauka, Moscow, URSS, 1983.

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Species Streptomyces speleomycini

Species ***Streptomyces* *speleomycini***