Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.5771
Name
 Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Buchanan 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Members
Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980)
Funke et al. 1995
Pascual et al. 1999
Hoyles et al. 2000
Saito et al. 2022
Hall et al. 2003
Hoyles et al. 2001
Hoyles et al. 2002
Hall et al. 2005 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Dent and Williams 1984 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Krasil'nikov 1970
Funke et al. 1997
Zhou et al. 2021
Preobrazhenskaya 1957
Lawson et al. 2001
Meng et al. 2017
Johnson et al. 1990
Johnson et al. 1990
Palakawong et al. 2016
Pascual Ramos et al. 1997
Hyun et al. 2014
Funke et al. 2010
Woo et al. 2004
Buchanan et al. 1984
Dent and Williams 1984
Gledhill and Casida 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Collins et al. 1993
(Kruse 1896) Lachner-Sandoval 1898 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Henssge et al. 2009
Li et al. 2019
Meng et al. 2017
Hoyles et al. 2001
Yang et al. 2021
Renvoise et al. 2009 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
(ex Prévot 1938) Cato et al. 1984
Thompson and Lovestedt 1951 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Hall et al. 2003
Rao et al. 2012
Funke et al. 1994
Batty 1958 (Approved Lists 1980)
Hall et al. 2003
Henssge et al. 2009
Yang et al. 2021
(Glage 1903) Reddy et al. 1982
Zhu et al. 2020
Collins et al. 2001 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Wüst et al. 1995 emend. Vandamme et al. 1998
Zhou et al. 2021
Waksman and Curtis 1916
An et al. 2006 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Dent and Williams 1986 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Palakawong et al. 2016
Hoyles et al. 2001
(Wegienek and Reddy 1982) Ludwig et al. 1992
Meng et al. 2018
Renvoise et al. 2010 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Zhou et al. 2021
Wüst et al. 1995
Nikolaitchouk et al. 2000 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
Hall et al. 2003
(Howell et al. 1965) Georg et al. 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Meng et al. 2017
Hijazin et al. 2012
Zhu et al. 2020
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
  Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
  Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Salam et al. 2020
  Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
  Buchanan 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
  Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.
Citation
When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.
Taxon Abstract for the genus Actinomyces Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5771.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on February 21, 2022.

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