Name: Lentzea waywayandensis (Labeda and Lyons 1989) Labeda et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Saccharothrix waywayandensis Labeda and Lyons 1989

Etymology: way.way.and.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. waywayandensis, of or belonging to Lake Waywayanda, N.J., of the soil samples from which the organism was first isolated

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 51594; DSM 44232; IFO 14970; JCM 9114; LL-37Z-15; NBRC 14970; NRRL B-16159; VKM Ac-1970

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF114813 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Labeda DP, Hatano K, Kroppenstedt RM, Tamura T. Revival of the genus Lentzea and proposal for Lechevalieria gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1045-1050.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1231-1233.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Saccharothrix waywayandensis Labeda and Lyons 1989	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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:
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Lentzea Yassin et al. 1995

Assigned by: Labeda DP, Hatano K, Kroppenstedt RM, Tamura T. Revival of the genus Lentzea and proposal for Lechevalieria gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1045-1050.

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