Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6421

Name

Nocardia africana Hamid et al. 2001 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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	Nocardia Trevisan 1889 emend. McClung 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

SD769^T (=DSM 44491 =NCTC 13181)

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 Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
family Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Nocardia Trevisan 1889 emend. McClung 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Nocardia africana Hamid et al. 2001 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 species Nocardia africana Hamid et al. 2001 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6421.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6421.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 21, 2018.

References

Hamid ME, Maldonado L, Sharaf Eldin GS, Mohamed MF, Saeed NS, Goodfellow M. Nocardia africana sp. nov., a new pathogen isolated from patients with pulmonary infections. J Clin Microbiol 2001; 39:625-630. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.39.2.625-630.2001 [PubMed].