Name: Streptomyces achromogenes subsp. achromogenes (Okami and Umezawa 1953) Bhuyan et al. 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov. (rule 40d)

Basonym: Streptomyces achromogenes Okami and Umezawa 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: a.chro.mo.ge.nes. Gr. pref. a-, not (inseparable prefix); Gr. neut. n. chrôma, color; Gr. suff. -genes, producing; from Gr. ind. v. gennaô, to produce; N.L. part. adj. achromogenes, not producing color

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 12767; ATCC 19719; BCRC 11618; CBS 458.68; CCRC 11618; CECT 3074; DSM 40028; HAMBI 1002; IFM 1173; IFO 12735; IMET 43080; JCM 4121; JCM 4561; KCTC 1740; NBRC 12735; NRRL B-2120; NRRL ISP-5028; PCM 2365; RIA 1000; RIA 756; UNIQEM 115; VKM Ac-1258

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Effective publication: Bhuyan BK, Owen SP, Dietz A. Rubradirin, a new antibiotic. I. Fermentation and biological properties. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1965; 1964:91-96.

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: synonym of its species (division into subspecies abandoned)

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 📠 This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Streptomyces achromogenes subsp. rubradiris Bhuyan et al. 1965 (Approved Lists 1980) according to rule 40d. Publication: Bhuyan BK, Owen SP, Dietz A. Rubradirin, a new antibiotic. I. Fermentation and biological properties. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1965; 1964:91-96.
  • ❗ Streptomyces achromogenes subsp. achromogenes is the correct name instead if this subspecies is regarded as a separate subspecies (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another subspecies whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate species Streptomyces achromogenes within a separate genus Streptomyces.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, Okami and Umezawa 1953, was corrected according to the new Rule 40d. Publication: Garrity GM, Labeda DP, Oren A. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. XIIth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 3, 4 and 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2775-2780.

Parent taxon: Streptomyces achromogenes Okami and Umezawa 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Bhuyan BK, Owen SP, Dietz A. Rubradirin, a new antibiotic. I. Fermentation and biological properties. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1965; 1964:91-96.

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