Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6514

Name

Williamsia Kämpfer et al. 1999

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	Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

species	Williamsia muralis Kämpfer et al. 1999
species	Williamsia aurantiaca corrig. Afonso de Menezes et al. 2020
species	Williamsia deligens Yassin and Hupfer 2006 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Williamsia faeni Jones et al. 2010
species	Williamsia herbipolensis Kämpfer et al. 2016
species	Williamsia limnetica Sazak and Sahin 2012
species	Williamsia marianensis Pathom-aree et al. 2006
species	Williamsia maris Stach et al. 2004 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Williamsia phyllosphaerae Kämpfer et al. 2011
species	Williamsia serinedens Yassin et al. 2007 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Williamsia soli Zhang et al. 2022
species	Williamsia spongiae Afonso de Menezes et al. 2017
species	Williamsia sterculiae Fang et al. 2013 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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 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 Williamsia Kämpfer 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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the genus Williamsia Kämpfer et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6514.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6514.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 22, 2022.

References

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Kämpfer P, Busse H-J, Horn H, Abdelmohsen UR, Hentschel U, Glaeser SP. Williamsia herbipolensis nov., isolated from the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4609-4613. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001398 [PubMed].
Afonso de Menezes CB, Afonso RS, Souza WR, Parma M, Melo IS, Zucchi TD, Fantinatti-Garboggini F. Williamsia spongiae sp. nov. an actinomycete isolated from the marine sponge Amphimedon viridis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1260-1265. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001796 [PubMed].
Sazak A, Sahin N. Williamsia limnetica sp. nov., isolated from a limnetic lake sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1414-1418. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.032474-0 [PubMed].
Afonso de Menezes CB, Afonso RS, de Souza WR, Parma MM, de Melo IS, Fugita FLS, Moraes LAB, Zucchi TD, Fantinatti-Garboggini F. Williamsia aurantiacus sp. nov. a novel actinobacterium producer of antimicrobial compounds isolated from the marine sponge. Arch Microbiol 2019; 201:691-698. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-019-01633-z [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].
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Stach JEM, Maldonado LA, Ward AC, Bull AT, Goodfellow M. Williamsia maris sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from the Sea of Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:191-194. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02767-0 [PubMed].
Jones AL, Payne GD, Goodfellow M. Williamsia faeni sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from a hay meadow. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2548-2551. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.015826-0 [PubMed].
Zhang M-J, Li X-H, Peng L-Y, Yun S-T, Liu Z-C, Zhou Y-X. Williamsia soli sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from soil at a thermal power plant in Yantai, China. Arch Microbiol 2021; 204:102-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-021-02714-8 [PubMed].
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Kämpfer P, Andersson MA, Rainey FA, Kroppenstedt RM, Salkinoja-Salonen M. Williamsia muralis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the indoor environment of a children's day care centre. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:681-687. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-2-681 [PubMed].
Kämpfer P, Wellner S, Lohse K, Lodders N, Martin K. Williamsia phyllosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the surface of Trifolium repens leaves. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2702-2705. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.029322-0 [PubMed].
Yassin AF, Young CC, Lai WA, Hupfer H, Arun AB, Shen FT, Rekha PD, Ho MJ. Williamsia serinedens sp. nov., isolated from an oil-contaminated soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:558-561. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64691-0 [PubMed].
Fang X-M, Su J, Wang H, Wei Y-Z, Zhang T, Zhao L-L, Liu H-Y, Ma B-P, Klenk H-P, Zhang Y-Q, Yu L-Y. Williamsia sterculiae sp. nov., isolated from a Chinese medicinal plant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4158-4162. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.052688-0 [PubMed].