Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11056

Name

Streptococcus constellatus (Prévot 1924) Holdeman and Moore 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Whiley et al. 1999

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	Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 emend. Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

subspecies	Streptococcus constellatus constellatus (Prévot 1924) Whiley et al. 1999
subspecies	Streptococcus constellatus pharyngis Whiley et al. 1999
subspecies	Streptococcus constellatus viborgensis Jensen et al. 2013

Type Strain

representative organism

4055^T (=SK 53 =NCDO 2226 =VPI 3810 =ATCC 27823 =NCTC 11325 =CNCTC 6/89)

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Streptococcaceae Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 emend. Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Streptococcus constellatus (Prévot 1924) Holdeman and Moore 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Whiley et al. 1999

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.16794
10.1601/ex.16793
10.1601/ex.16795	Oral Taxon 576 (=84A19BP)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Streptococcus constellatus (Prévot 1924) Holdeman and Moore 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Whiley et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11056.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11056.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 10, 2017.

References

Whiley RA, Hall LMC, Hardie JM, Beighton D. A study of small-colony, beta-haemolytic, Lancefield group C streptococci within the anginosus group: description of Streptococcus constellatus subsp. pharyngis subsp. nov., associated with the human throat and pharyngitis. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1443-1449. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1443 [PubMed].
Holdeman LV, Moore WEC. New genus, Coprococcus, twelve new species, and emended descriptions of four previously described species of bacteria from human feces. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1974; 24:260-277. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-24-2-260.
Jensen A, Hoshino T, Kilian M. Taxonomy of the Anginosus group of the genus Streptococcus and description of Streptococcus anginosus subsp. whileyi subsp. nov. and Streptococcus constellatus subsp. viborgensis subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2506-2519. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.043232-0 [PubMed].