Rothia, gen. nov. an aerobic genus of the family Actinomycetaceae

SUMMARY Rothia gen. nov. (Actinomycetaceae) is proposed as the name of a monotypic genus with the species Rothia dentocariosus comb. nov. (basionym Actinomyces dentocariosus Onisi 1949), synonyms Nocardia dentocariosus (Onisi) Roth 1957; Nocardia salivae Davis and Freer 1960, No strain of Onisi’s original isolates is extant. ATCC 17931 is described and proposed as the neotype strain of Rothia dentocariosus (Onisi) Georg and Brown 1967.