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
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
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