Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6480

Name

Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) 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	Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

C7^T (=CIP 54.72 =DSM 20307 =NBRC 14956 =HAMBI 2061 =NRRL B-16538 =LMG 18452 =JCM 1311 =NBRC 101255 =NCTC 1621 =JCM 3209 =ATCC 25729 =ATCC 6939 =WDCM 00028 =DSM 43349 =VKM Ac-953 =CCUG 892)

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 equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.17334	103S
10.1601/ex.17333	1 (=ATCC 33701)
10.1601/ex.16199	CDC B1480 (=ATCC 33707)
10.1601/ex.6227	FHP 611 (=C7 =JCM 1319 =ATCC 7005 =NBRC 103062 =DSM 20295 =CCUG 20991 =CIP 81.17 =NCTC 10673)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Rhodococcus equi (Magnusson 1923) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6480.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6480.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 7, 2022.

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].