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

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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 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 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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