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A stable home for an equine pathogen: valid publication of the binomial gen. nov., comb. nov., and reclassification of four rhodococcal species into the genus . Open Access

Abstract

Opinion 106 of the Judicial Commission has clarified the nomenclature of the taxon variously named , ’ and . As a consequence, we present here the genus name and that of its nomenclatural type species, comb. nov., for valid publication and propose the reclassification of four rhodococcal species as novel combinations in the genus, namely Guo et al. 2015 comb. nov., Kämpfer . 2014 comb. nov., Li . 2015 comb. nov. and Lee . 2019 comb. nov. In addition, we note that a clinical isolate, strain 86–07 (=W8901), likely represents an additional species within the genus . Nearly a century after the original description of the type strain of the type species as , we provide a stable home for and its relatives.

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Keyword(s): Actinomycetota , mycolic acids , Nocardiaceae , phylogenomics and Rhodococcus
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A stable home for an equine pathogen: valid publication of the binomial Prescottella equi gen. nov., comb. nov., and reclassification of four rhodococcal species into the genus Prescottella.
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