Species ***Streptomyces* *violarus***

Name: Streptomyces violarus (Artamonova and Krassilnikov 1960) Pridham 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Actinomyces violarus" Artamonova and Krassilnikov 1960

Etymology: vi.o.la.rus. from N.L. masc. adj. violarus

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 15891; ATCC 25516; CBS 658.69; CCT 5007; CECT 3237; DSM 40205; IFO 13104; JCM 4534; KCTC 9788; NBRC 13104; NRRL B-5432; NRRL ISP-5205; RIA 1296; RIA 157; UNIQEM 204; VKM Ac-528

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB184316 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
"Actinomyces violarus" Artamonova and Krassilnikov 1960	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
"Streptomyces violaceus subsp. violarus" (Artamonova and Krassilnikov 1960) Long et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, not validly published, distinct rank

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 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.
- 🧍 The distinct name Streptomyces violatus from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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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Species Streptomyces violarus

Species ***Streptomyces* *violarus***