Name: Thermoactinospora rubra Zhou et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ru’bra. L. fem. adj. rubra, red, referring to the color of substrate mycelium

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AA 2011014; DSM 45614; DSM 45616; YIM 77501; YIM 77570

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN626947 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Zhou EM, Tang SK, Sjoholm C, Song ZQ, Yu TT, Yang LL, Ming H, Nie GX, Li WJ. Thermoactinospora rubra gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic actinomycete isolated from Tengchong, Yunnan province, south-west China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 102:177-185.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 148. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2549-2554.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Thermoactinospora Zhou et al. 2012. Publication: Zhou EM, Tang SK, Sjoholm C, Song ZQ, Yu TT, Yang LL, Ming H, Nie GX, Li WJ. Thermoactinospora rubra gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic actinomycete isolated from Tengchong, Yunnan province, south-west China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 102:177-185.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Thermoactinospora Zhou et al. 2012

Assigned by: Zhou EM, Tang SK, Sjoholm C, Song ZQ, Yu TT, Yang LL, Ming H, Nie GX, Li WJ. Thermoactinospora rubra gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic actinomycete isolated from Tengchong, Yunnan province, south-west China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2012; 102:177-185.

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