Species ***Streptomyces* *sulphureus***

Name: Streptomyces sulphureus (Gasperini 1894) Waksman 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Actinomyces sulphureus" Gasperini 1894

Etymology: sul.phu’re.us. L. masc. adj. sulphureus, of sulfur, sulphureous, referring to the bright sulfur-yellow color of the aerial mycelium

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … sul-P^HU-re-us, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 27468; BCRC 13764; CBS 646.72; CCRC 13764; DSM 40104; HUT 6080; IFO 13345; IMET 40623; JCM 4085; JCM 4835; LMG 19355; NBRC 13345; NRRL B-1627; NRRL B-2195; NRRL ISP-5104; RIA 1306; VKM Ac-1820

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB249965 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Waksman SA, Lechevalier HA. Guide to the Classification and Identification of the Actinomycetes and their Antibiotics. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1953.

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
"Actinomyces sulphureus" Gasperini 1894	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

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 genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

Notes:
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05846 (N = 5).
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Waksman) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Waksman and Lechevalier).
- 😷 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 6 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: Waksman SA, Lechevalier HA. Guide to the Classification and Identification of the Actinomycetes and their Antibiotics. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1953.

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Species Streptomyces sulphureus

Species ***Streptomyces* *sulphureus***