Kitasatospora Explained

Kitasatospora is an Actinobacteria genus in the family Streptomycetaceae. The genus name comes from Shibasaburo Kitasato, a Japanese bacteriologist.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[2]

Species

Kitasatospora comprises the following genera:

• K. albolonga (Tsukiura et al. 1964) Labeda et al. 2017
• K. cinereorecta (Terekhova and Preobrazhenskaya 1986) Labeda et al. 2017
• K. fiedleri Zimmermann et al. 2023
• "K. kepongensis" Rodriguez, Brown & Goodfellow 2005
• "K. melanogena" Shimazu et al. 1984
• K. misakiensis (Nakamura 1961) Labeda et al. 2017
• "K. papulosa" corrig. Nakamura et al. 1989
• "K. pitsanulaokmensis" Tanasupawat & Jongrungruangchok 2005
• "K. recifensis" Stamford et al. 2007

See also

• List of bacterial genera named after personal names
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

Notes and References

1. Web site: A.C. Parte. Kitasatospora. 2023-09-09. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). et al..
2. Web site: Sayers. Kitasatospora. 2023-09-09. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. et al..
3. Web site: The LTP . 20 November 2023.
4. Web site: LTP_all tree in newick format. 20 November 2023.
5. Web site: LTP_08_2023 Release Notes. 20 November 2023.
6. Web site: GTDB release 08-RS214 . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
7. Web site: bac120_r214.sp_label . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.
8. Web site: Taxon History . Genome Taxonomy Database. 10 May 2023.