Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32565

Name

Blastococcus atacamensis Castro 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	Blastococcus Ahrens and Moll 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hezbri et al. 2016

Type Strain

representative organism

P6^T (=NCIMB 15090 =NRRL B-65468)

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 Geodermatophilales Sen et al. 2014
family Geodermatophilaceae Normand 2006 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Blastococcus Ahrens and Moll 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hezbri et al. 2016
species Blastococcus atacamensis Castro 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

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Blastococcus atacamensis Castro et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32565.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32565.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 24, 2018.

References

Castro JF, Nouioui I, Sangal V, Choi S, Yang S-J, Kim B-Y, Trujillo ME, Riesco R, Montero-Calasanz MDC, Rahmani TPD, Bull AT, Sutcliffe IC, Asenjo JA, Andrews B, Goodfellow M. Blastococcus atacamensis sp. nov., a novel strain adapted to life in the Yungay core region of the Atacama Desert. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2712-2721. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002828 [PubMed].