Species "Streptomyces thermophilus"

Name: "Streptomyces thermophilus" (Gilbert 1904) Waksman and Curtis 1948

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Etymology: ther.mo’phi.lus. Gr. fem. adj. thermê, heat; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; N.L. masc. adj. thermophilus, heat-loving, reflecting the source of the genome bin from a hot spring sediment

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ther-MO-phi-lus, masculine

Original publication: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology Sixth Edition. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1948.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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

Assigned by: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology Sixth Edition. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 1948.

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Record number: 19832
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