Name: Umezawaea tangerina (Kinoshita et al. 2000) Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Saccharothrix tangerinus Kinoshita et al. 2000

Etymology: tan.ge.ri’na. N.L. fem. adj. tangerina, tangerine-coloured, referring to the colony colour

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 44720; FERM P-16053; IFO 16184; JCM 10302; MK27-91F2; NBRC 16184; NRRL B-24463

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB020031 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Labeda DP, Kroppenstedt RM. Proposal of Umezawaea gen. nov., a new genus of the Actinosynnemataceae related to Saccharothrix, and transfer of Saccharothrix tangerinus Kinoshita et al. 2000 as Umezawaea tangerina gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2758-2761.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:531-532.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Saccharothrix tangerinus Kinoshita et al. 2000	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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Umezawaea Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2007. Publication: Labeda DP, Kroppenstedt RM. Proposal of Umezawaea gen. nov., a new genus of the Actinosynnemataceae related to Saccharothrix, and transfer of Saccharothrix tangerinus Kinoshita et al. 2000 as Umezawaea tangerina gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2758-2761.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Umezawaea Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2007

Assigned by: Labeda DP, Kroppenstedt RM. Proposal of Umezawaea gen. nov., a new genus of the Actinosynnemataceae related to Saccharothrix, and transfer of Saccharothrix tangerinus Kinoshita et al. 2000 as Umezawaea tangerina gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2758-2761.

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Record number: 786968