Biology:Kitasatospora

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) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024

120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226

Kitasatospora   K. arboriphila       K. viridis         K. acidiphila     K. humi         K. kifunensis         K. nipponensis       K. azatica       K. putterlickiae     K. sampliensis Mayilraj et al. 2006               K. purpeofusca       K. herbaricolor     K. indigofera             K. aburaviensis         Streptomyces lactacystinicus       Streptomyces purpureus (Matsumae & Hata 1968) Goodfellow et al. 1986     "K. fumigata" (Frommer 1959) Labeda et al. 2017           K. xanthocidica       K. aureofaciens     K. psammotica                 K. cystarginea       K. atroaurantiaca       K. gansuensis       K. kazusensis     K. mediocidica                 K. paranensis     K. terrestris         K. saccharophila         K. cheerisanensis     K. fiedleri         K. phosalacinea         K. griseola     K. paracochleata         K. setae       K. cineracea     K. niigatensis

Kitasatospora       K. mediocidica corrig. Labeda 1988     K. nipponensis Groth et al. 2004         K. kifunensis (Nakagaito et al. 1993) Groth et al. 2003       K. azatica corrig. (Nakagaito et al. 1993) Zhang et al. 1997       Streptomyces tateyamensis Khan et al. 2010       K. viridis Liu et al. 2005       K. acidiphila Kim et al. 2020     K. humi Klaysubun et al. 2022 validly published under the ICNP                       K. herbaricolor (Kawato and Shinobu 1959) Labeda et al. 2017     K. indigofera (Shinobu and Kawato 1960) Nouioui et al. 2018         K. aburaviensis (Nishimura et al. 1957) Labeda et al. 2017         K. purpeofusca (Yamaguchi and Saburi 1955) Labeda et al. 2017     K. putterlickiae Groth et al. 2003         "Streptomyces kaniharaensis" Shomura & Niida 1970       "Streptomyces rubellomurinus" Okuhara et al. 1980         K. aureofaciens (Duggar 1948) Labeda et al. 2017 [incl. K. psammotica (Virgilio & Hengeller 1960) Labeda et al. 2017]     K. cathayae Zheng et al. 2024           Streptomyces novaecaesareae Waksman & Henrici 1948     K. xanthocidica (Asahi et al. 1966) Nouioui et al. 2018         "K. brasiliensis" Cunha-Ferreira et al. 2024     Streptomyces lactacystinicus Také et al. 2017                         K. atroaurantiaca (Nakagaito et al. 1993) Li et al. 2009       K. kazusensis corrig. Li et al. 2009       K. albolonga (Tsukiura et al. 1964) Labeda et al. 2017     K. gansuensis Groth et al. 2004             K. cystarginea corrig. Kusakabe and Isono 1992         K. arboriphila Groth et al. 2004     K. paranensis Groth et al. 2004           K. paracochleata corrig. (Nakagaito et al. 1993) Zhang et al. 1997     K. terrestris Groth et al. 2004           K. cheerisanensis Chung et al. 1999     K. griseola corrig. Takahashi et al. 1985         K. cineracea Tajima et al. 2001 [incl. K. niigatensis Tajima et al. 2001]       K. phosalacinea corrig. Takahashi et al. 1985       K. fiedleri Zimmermann et al. 2023       K. saccharophila Li et al. 2009     K. setae corrig. Ōmura et al. 1983

Species

Species incertae sedis:

• K. grisea corrig. Nakamura et al. 2025
• K. hibisci Xiao et al. 2025
• "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

References

Wikidata ☰ Q6417881 entry