Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6479

Name

Rhodococcus corallinus (Bergey et al. 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

ATCC 25593^T (=NCTC 10668 =JCM 3199 =N657)

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 Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Rhodococcus corallinus (Bergey et al. 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Rhodococcus corallinus (Bergey et al. 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6479.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6479.xml

References

Goodfellow M, Alderson G. The actinomycete-genus Rhodococcus: a home for the rhodochrous complex. J Gen Microbiol 1977; 100:99-122. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-100-1-99 [PubMed].