Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Streptomyces violaceorectus

Name: Streptomyces violaceorectus (Ryabova and Preobrazhenskaya 1957) Pridham et al. 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Actinomyces violaceorectus" Ryabova and Preobrazhenskaya 1957

Etymology: vi.o.la.ce.o.rec.tus. L. masc. adj. violaceus, violet colored; L. masc. perf. part. rectus, straight; N.L. masc. part. adj. violaceorectus, violet colored, straight (referring to the color of the vegetative mycelium and diffusible pigment on some media and to the structure of sporophores)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 25514; BCRC 13626; CBS 656.69; CCRC 13626; DSM 40279; IFO 13102; IMET 43520; INA 506; JCM 4532; NBRC 13102; NRRL B-12181; NRRL ISP-5279; RIA 1294; VKM Ac-584

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16S rRNA gene: AB184314 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Pridham TG, Hesseltine CW, Benedict RG. A guide for the classification of streptomycetes according to selected groups; placement of strains in morphological sections. Appl Microbiol 1958; 6:52-79.

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

Risk group: 1

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

Assigned by: Pridham TG, Hesseltine CW, Benedict RG. A guide for the classification of streptomycetes according to selected groups; placement of strains in morphological sections. Appl Microbiol 1958; 6:52-79.

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Record number: 782109
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