Name: Streptosporangium viridogriseum subsp. viridogriseum (Okuda et al. 1966) Nonomura and Ohara 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Subspecies

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

Basonym: Streptosporangium viridogriseum Okuda et al. 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

Etymology: vi.ri.do.gri.se.um. L. masc./fem. adj. viridis, green; M.L. masc. adj. griseus, gray; N.L. neut. adj. viridogriseum, greenish gray

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 25242; DSM 43850; IFO 15561; JCM 3282; NBRC 15561; NRRL B-24059; VKM Ac-1297

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Effective publication: Nonomura H, Ohara Y. Distribution of actinomycetes in soil. VII. A culture method effective for both preferential isolation and enumeration of Microbispora and Streptosporangium strains in soil. (Part 2). Classification of the isolates. Journal of Fermentation Technology 1969; 47:701-709.

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: orphaned subspecies

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 📠 This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Streptosporangium viridogriseum subsp. kofuense Nonomura and Ohara 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) according to rule 40d. Publication: Nonomura H, Ohara Y. Distribution of actinomycetes in soil. VII. A culture method effective for both preferential isolation and enumeration of Microbispora and Streptosporangium strains in soil. (Part 2). Classification of the isolates. Journal of Fermentation Technology 1969; 47:701-709.
  • ❗ Streptosporangium viridogriseum subsp. viridogriseum 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 Streptosporangium viridogriseum within a separate genus Streptosporangium.
  • 😷 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, Okuda et al. 1966, 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: Streptosporangium viridogriseum Okuda et al. 1966 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nonomura H, Ohara Y. Distribution of actinomycetes in soil. VII. A culture method effective for both preferential isolation and enumeration of Microbispora and Streptosporangium strains in soil. (Part 2). Classification of the isolates. Journal of Fermentation Technology 1969; 47:701-709.

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