Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6492

Name

Rhodococcus opacus Klatte et al. 1995

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

ATCC 51881^T (=DSM 43205 =NCIMB 13353)

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 opacus Klatte et al. 1995

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.18085	B4 PD630
10.1601/ex.17336	B4

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Rhodococcus opacus Klatte et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6492.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6492.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 8, 2010.

References

Klatte S, Kroppenstedt RM, Rainey FA. Rhodococcus opacus sp. nov., an unusual nutritionally versatile Rhodococcus-species. Syst Appl Microbiol 1994; 17:355-360.