Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5787

Name

Actinomyces howellii Dent and Williams 1984

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Actinomyces Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

NCTC 11636^T (=Sh7/4276)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Salam et al. 2020
suborder Actinomycineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
family Actinomycetaceae Buchanan 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Actinomyces Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species Actinomyces howellii Dent and Williams 1984

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

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Taxon Abstract for the species Actinomyces howellii Dent and Williams 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5787.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5787.xml

References

Dent VE, Williams RAD. Actinomyces howellii, a new species from the dental plaque of diary cattle. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:316-320. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-3-316.