Nocardia uniformis nom. rev.

A soil isolate representing the putatively novel species 'Nocardia uniformi s' was found to have morphological, staining and chemotaxonomic properties consistent with its classification in the genus Nocardia. An almost complet e sequence of the 16S rDNA of the strain was determined following cloning a nd sequencing of the amplified gene. The sequence was aligned with those av ailable for nocardiae and phylogenetic trees were inferred using four tree- making algorithms. The organism was consistently associated with the type s train of Nocardia otitidiscaviarum albeit with a relatively low bootstrap v alue recorded for neighbour-joining analysis. The strain was also readily s eparated from representatives of all validly described Nocardia species usi ng a set of phenotypic properties. The genotypic and phenotypic data indica te that the strain should be assigned to the genus Nocardia as a new specie s. The name proposed for the new species is Nocardia uniformis. The type st rain is JCM 3224(T).