Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6605

Names

Virgisporangium corrig. Tamura et al. 2001 emend. Otoguro et al. 2010, Virgosporangium (sic) Tamura et al. 2001 emend. Otoguro et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Micromonosporaceae Krasil'nikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

species	Virgisporangium ochraceum corrig. Tamura et al. 2001
species	Virgisporangium aliadipatigenens Otoguro et al. 2011
species	Virgisporangium myanmarense Yamamura et al. 2017
species	Virgosporangium aurantiacum (sic) Tamura et al. 2001

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Micromonosporales (Stackebrandt et al. 1997) Genilloud 2015
family Micromonosporaceae Krasil'nikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Virgisporangium corrig. Tamura et al. 2001 emend. Otoguro et al. 2010

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 genus Virgisporangium corrig. Tamura et al. 2001 emend. Otoguro et al. 2010 and Virgosporangium (sic) Tamura et al. 2001 emend. Otoguro et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6605.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6605.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 14, 2017.

References

Otoguro M, Ishida Y, Tamura T, Yamamura H, Suzuki K-i, Hayakawa M. Virgisporangium aliadipatigenens sp. nov., isolated from soil in Iriomote Island and emended description of the genus Virgisporangium. Actinomycetol 2010; 24:39-44. https://doi.org/10.3209/saj.SAJ240203.
Yamamura H, Miyazaki S, Ikoma K, Nakagawa Y, Hamada M, Otoguro M, Tamura T, Ando K, Phay N, Hayakawa M. Virgisporangium myanmarense sp. nov., a novel motile actinomycete isolated from an anthill soil in Myanmar. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2017; 70:995-999. https://doi.org/10.1038/ja.2017.81 [PubMed].
Tamura T, Hayakawa M, Hatano K. A new genus of the order Actinomycetales, Virgosporangium gen. nov., with descriptions of Virgosporangium ochraceum sp. nov. and Virgosporangium aurantiacum sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1809-1816. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-5-1809 [PubMed].
Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65780-0 [PubMed].