Name: Streptomyces albus subsp. albus (Rossi Doria 1891) Nagatsu et al. 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Subspecies

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

Basonym: "Streptotrix alba" Rossi Doria 1891

Etymology: al’bus. L. masc. adj. albus, white

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 25426; ATCC 3004; BCRC 10802; CBS 410.63; CBS 924.69; CCRC 10802; CCUG 33990; CECT 3077; CGMCC 4.164; CIP 104432; DSM 40313; HUT 6613; IFM 1119; IFO 13014; IFO 3710; IMET 40241; IMRU 3004; JCM 4177; JCM 4450; KCTC 1082; NBRC 13014; NBRC 3710; NCIB 9558; NCIMB 9558; NRRL B-1811; NRRL B-2208; NRRL ISP-5313; RIA 1206; VKM Ac-35

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Effective publication: Nagatsu J, Anzai K, Suzuki S. Pathocidin, a new antifungal antibiotic; II. Taxonomic studies on the pathocidin-producing organism Streptomyces albus var. pathocidicus. Journal of Antibiotics (Tokyo) Series A 1962; 15:103-106.

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 albus subsp. pathocidicus Nagatsu et al. 1962 (Approved Lists 1980) according to rule 40d. Publication: Nagatsu J, Anzai K, Suzuki S. Pathocidin, a new antifungal antibiotic; II. Taxonomic studies on the pathocidin-producing organism Streptomyces albus var. pathocidicus. Journal of Antibiotics (Tokyo) Series A 1962; 15:103-106.
  • ❗ Streptomyces albus subsp. albus 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 albus 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. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 The original authorship, (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman and Henrici 1943, 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 albus (Rossi Doria 1891) Waksman and Henrici 1943 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nagatsu J, Anzai K, Suzuki S. Pathocidin, a new antifungal antibiotic; II. Taxonomic studies on the pathocidin-producing organism Streptomyces albus var. pathocidicus. Journal of Antibiotics (Tokyo) Series A 1962; 15:103-106.

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