Name: Saccharothrix mutabilis subsp. mutabilis (Shearer et al. 1983) Grund and Kroppenstedt 1990

Category: Subspecies

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

Basonym: Nocardiopsis mutabilis Shearer et al. 1983

Etymology: mu.ta.bi.lis. L. masc./fem. adj. mutabilis, liable to change, variable

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 31520; DSM 43853; IFO 14310; JCM 3380; KCTC 9397; NBRC 14310; NRRL B-16077; SK&F AAA-25; VKM Ac-2023

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Effective publication: Grund E, Kroppenstedt RM. Transfer of five Nocardiopsis species to the genus Saccharothrix Labeda et al. 1984. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1989; 12:267-274.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 34. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:320-321.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 📠 This subspecies was automatically created by the valid publication of Saccharothrix mutabilis subsp. capreolus (ex Higgens 1963) Grund and Kroppenstedt 1990 according to rule 40d. Publication: Grund E, Kroppenstedt RM. Transfer of five Nocardiopsis species to the genus Saccharothrix Labeda et al. 1984. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1989; 12:267-274.
  • 😷 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, (Shearer et al. 1983) Labeda and Lechevalier 1989, 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: Saccharothrix mutabilis (Shearer et al. 1983) Labeda and Lechevalier 1989

Assigned by: Grund E, Kroppenstedt RM. Transfer of five Nocardiopsis species to the genus Saccharothrix Labeda et al. 1984. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1989; 12:267-274.

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