Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6497

Name

Rhodococcus ruber (Kruse 1896) 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

CIP 104180^T (=DSM 43338 =KCC A-0205 =IEGM 70 =NBRC 15591 =VKM Ac-1021 =LMG 5366 =JCM 3205)

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 ruber (Kruse 1896) 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.

Citation

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Taxon Abstract for the species Rhodococcus ruber (Kruse 1896) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6497.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6497.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 21, 2018.

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].