Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6431

Name

Nocardia cellulans Metcalf and Brown 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Nocardia Trevisan 1889 emend. McClung 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

HAMBI 95^T (=VKM Ac-1412 =DSM 43879 =IMET 7404 =CFBP 4267 =JCM 9965 =LMG 16221 =NCIMB 8868 =ATCC 12830 =NRRL B-2768 =CIP 103404 =IFO 15516 =NBRC 15516 =DSM 43189)

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 Nocardia Trevisan 1889 emend. McClung 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Nocardia cellulans Metcalf and Brown 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Nocardia cellulans Metcalf and Brown 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6431.

Source File

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References

Metcalf G, Brown ME. Nitrogen fixation by new species of Nocardia. J Gen Microbiol 1957; 17:567-572. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-17-3-567 [PubMed].