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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Streptomyces werraensis

Name: Streptomyces werraensis Wallhäusser et al. 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: wer.ra.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. werraensis, of or belonging to River Werra, Germany (referring to "werramycin," the name originally assigned to the antibiotics produced) [probably better: werrensis]

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 14424; BCRC 12038; CBS 437.67; CBS 705.72; CCRC 12038; DSM 40486; DSM 40745; IFO 13404; JCM 4860; NBRC 13404; NRRL B-5317; NRRL ISP-5486; RIA 1365

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB184381 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Wallhaeusser KH, Huber G, Nesemann G, Praeve P, Zepf K. [THE ANTIBIOTICS FH 3582 A AND B AND THEIR IDENTITY WITH NONACTIN AND ITS HOMOLOGUES]. Arzneimittelforschung 1964; 14:356-360.

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: Wallhaeusser KH, Huber G, Nesemann G, Praeve P, Zepf K. [THE ANTIBIOTICS FH 3582 A AND B AND THEIR IDENTITY WITH NONACTIN AND ITS HOMOLOGUES]. Arzneimittelforschung 1964; 14:356-360.

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Record number: 782134
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