Name: Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: No.card’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Nocardia, named after Edmond Nocard (1850-1903), a French veterinarian who first isolated members of this taxon

Gender: feminine (stem: Nocardi-)

Type species: Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger 1891) Blanchard 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Trevisan V. I Generi e le Specie delle Batteriacee. Zanaboni and Gabuzzi, Milano, 1889.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Micropolyspora Lechevalier et al. 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.
  • Nomenclatural type of the uncategorized "Nocardioform" Goodfellow and Williams 1983. Publication: Goodfellow M, Williams ST. Ecology of Actinomycetes. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1983; 37:189-216.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Actinomycetaceae Buchanan 1918 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Waksman SA. Family Actinomycetaceae Buchanan and family Steptomycetaceae Waksman and Henrici. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 744-825.
  • Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • Goodfellow and Williams (1983) assigned this genus to the uncategorized "Nocardioform" Goodfellow and Williams 1983. Publication: Goodfellow M, Williams ST. Ecology of Actinomycetes. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1983; 37:189-216.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Cladothrix" Cohn 1872. Publication: Eppinger H. Über eine neue pathogene Cladothrix und eine durch sie hervorgerufene Pseudotuberculosis (Cladothrichica). Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie 1891; 9:287-328.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Kocardia"; "Nacardia"; "Nacardiu"; "Nacurdia"; "Ncwardiu"; "Necardia"; "Ngcardia"; "Nncardia"; "Noaardia"; "Noardia"; "Nocadia"; "Nocafdia"; "Nocarclia"; "Nocardici"; "Nocardie"; "Nocardio"; "Nocardiu"; "Nocardla"; "Nocardm"; "Nocardta"; "Nocardzia"; "Nocarida"; "Nocarilia"; "Nocavdia"; "Nocnrdia"; "Nocordia"; "Nocqrdia"; "Noctardia"; "Nocurdia"; "Noeardia"; "Nomrdia"; "Nonardia"; "Norardia"; "Norcardia"; "Norrardia"; "Notardia"; "Novardia"; "Nsicardia"; "Nucardia"; "Nucurdia"; "Nvcardia"; "Vacardia"; "Vocardia"; "Vucardia"; "Wocardia"; "Xocardia"; "Yocardia". — This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Nocardiae".
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Conville et al. (2008), Hoshino et al. (2007), Jurado et al. (2008), Lasker et al. (2015), Ding et al. (2018). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 142; JCM: 109; NBRC: 75; CCUG: 41; CIP: 41; ATCC: 40; NRRL: 38; IFO: 30; VKM: 23; IFM: 21.
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "NOC" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
  • Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger 1891) Blanchard 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) is the valid type species of the genus Nocardia Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Sneath PHA. Status of nomenclatural types in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Request for an opinion. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1982; 32:459-460.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 126
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 141
Total number of child taxa: 168

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Nocardia abscessus Yassin et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia acididurans Sirireung et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia aciditolerans Golinska et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia acidivorans Kämpfer et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia aerocolonigenes" (Shinobu and Kawato 1960) Pridham 1970	not validly published
    Nocardia africana Hamid et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia alba Li et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia albiluteola Shan et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia alni Nouioui et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia altamirensis Jurado et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia amamiensis Yamamura et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia amarae Lechevalier and Lechevalier 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia amikacinitolerans Ezeoke et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia anaemiae Kageyama et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia aobensis Kageyama et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia araoensis Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia argentinensis" Cone et al. 1989	not validly published
    Nocardia arizonensis Lasker et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia artemisiae Zhao et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia arthritidis Kageyama et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia asiatica Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia asteroides (Eppinger 1891) Blanchard 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia aurantia Benndorf et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia aurantiaca Kanchanasin et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia aurea Fang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia autotrophica (Takamiya and Tubaki 1956) Hirsch 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia barduliensis Nouioui et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia beijingensis Wang et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia bhagyanarayanae corrig. Vaddavalli et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia bhagyanesis Vaddavalli et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Nocardia blacklockiae Conville et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia boironii" Gilquin et al. 2016	not validly published
    Nocardia bovistercoris Zhang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia brasiliensis (Lindenberg 1909) Pinoy 1913 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia brevicatena (Lechevalier et al. 1961) Goodfellow and Pirouz 1982	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia caishijiensis Zhang et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia calcarea Metcalfe and Brown 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia callitridis Kaewkla and Franco 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia camponoti Liu et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia canicruria" Adams and McClung 1962	not validly published
    "Nocardia capreola" (Higgens 1963) Pridham 1970	not validly published
    Nocardia carnea (Rossi Doria 1891) Castellani and Chalmers 1913 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia casuarinae Ghodhbane-Gtari et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia cavernae Li et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia cellulans Metcalfe and Brown 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia cerradoensis Albuquerque de Barros et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia coeliaca (Gray and Thornton 1928) Waksman and Henrici 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia coffeae Nammali et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia colli Zhou et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia concava Kageyama et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia corynebacterioides Serrano et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia coubleae Rodríguez-Nava et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia crassostreae Friedman et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia cummidelens Maldonado et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia cyriacigeorgica corrig. Yassin et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia cyriacigeorgici Yassin et al. 2001	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Nocardia donostiensis Ercibengoa et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia elegans Yassin and Brenner 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia endophytica Xing et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia exalbida Iida et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia farcinica Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia flavorosea Chun et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia fluminea Maldonado et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia fructiferi" Waksman 1961	not validly published
    Nocardia gamkensis Le Roes and Meyers 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia gipuzkoensis Nouioui et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia globerula (Gray 1928) Waksman and Henrici 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia goodfellowii Sazak et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia grenadensis Kämpfer et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia halotolerans Nikou et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia harenae Seo and Lee 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia heshunensis Huang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia higoensis Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia huaxiensis Zhuang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia hydrocarbonoxydans Nolof and Hirsch 1962 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia ignorata Yassin et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia inohanensis Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia interforma" Hori et al. 1964	not validly published
    "Nocardia intracellularis" Cuttino and McCabe 1949	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Nocardia iowensis Lamm et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia italica" Amici et al. 1966	not validly published
    Nocardia jejuensis Lee 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia jiangsuensis Bai et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia jiangxiensis Cui et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia jinanensis Sun et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia kroppenstedtii Jones et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia kruczakiae Conville et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia lasii Liu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia levis" Kavitha et al. 2009	not validly published
    Nocardia lijiangensis Xu et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia lurida" Theriault et al. 1986	not validly published
    Nocardia macrotermitis Benndorf et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia mangyaensis Yang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia mediterranea (Margalith and Beretta 1960) Thiemann et al. 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Nocardia mediterranei corrig. (Margalith and Beretta 1960) Thiemann et al. 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia mexicana Rodríguez-Nava et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia mikamii Jannat-Khah et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia miyunensis Cui et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia neocaledoniensis Saintpierre-Bonaccio et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia niigatensis Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia ninae Laurent et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia niwae Moser et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia noduli Nouioui et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia nova Tsukamura 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia orientalis (Pittenger and Brigham 1956) Pridham and Lyons 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia otitidiscaviarum corrig. Snijders 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia panacis" Hu et al. 2020	not validly published
    "Nocardia paratuberculosis" Tsukamura 1982	not validly published
    Nocardia paucivorans Yassin et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia petroleophila Hirsch and Engel 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Nocardia phenotolerans" Yassin et al. 1988	not validly published
    Nocardia pigrifrangens Wang et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia pinensis Blackall et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia pneumoniae Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia polyresistens Xu et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia pseudobrasiliensis Ruimy et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia pseudovaccinii Kim et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia puris Yassin et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia rayongensis Tanasupawat et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia recifei" Gonçalves de Lima et al. 1955	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Nocardia restricta (Turfitt 1944) McClung 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Nocardia restrictus" Sih and Bennett 1962	not validly published
    Nocardia rhamnosiphila Everest et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia rhizosphaerae Wang et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia rhizosphaerihabitans Ding et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia rosealba Huang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia rugosa (Lechevalier et al. 1986) Goodfellow and Lechevalier 1988	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia salmonicida (ex Rucker 1949) Isik et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia saturnea Hirsch 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Nocardia sebivorans" Gorrill and Heptinstall 1954	not validly published
    Nocardia senatus Kageyama et al. 2004	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Nocardia seriolae Kudo et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia shimofusensis Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia shinanonensis Matsumoto et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia sienata corrig. Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia simplex" Jirasripongpun 2002	not validly published
    Nocardia soli Maldonado et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia speluncae Seo et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia sputi Wang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia stercoris Zhao et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia suismassiliense" Fellag et al. 2018	not validly published
    Nocardia sulphurea (Lechevalier et al. 1986) Goodfellow and Lechevalier 1988	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Nocardia sungurluensis Camas et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia takedensis Yamamura et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia tartaricans" Cox and Goldsmith 1979	not validly published
    Nocardia tenerifensis Kämpfer et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia tengchongensis Li et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia terpenica Hoshino et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia terrae" Kanchanasin et al. 2021	not validly published
    Nocardia testacea corrig. Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia testaceus Kageyama et al. 2004	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Nocardia thailandica Kageyama et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia thraciensis Sazak et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia transvalensis Pijper and Pullinger 1927 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nocardia turbata" Erikson 1954	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
    Nocardia uniformis (ex Marton and Szabó 1959) Isik et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia vaccinii Demaree and Smith 1952 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia vermiculata Kageyama et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia veterana Gürtler et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia vinacea Kinoshita et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia vulneris Lasker et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia wallacei Conville et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia xestospongiae Thawai et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia xishanensis Zhang et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia yamanashiensis Kageyama et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia yunnanensis Zhang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia zapadnayensis Ozdemir-Kocak et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nocardia zhihengii Huang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

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