%0 Journal Article %A Oren, Aharon %T Proposal to designate the order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917, 162 (Approved Lists 1980) as the nomenclatural type of the class Actinobacteria. Request for an Opinion %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 9 %P 3687-3688 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002287 %K Request for an Opinion %K Actinomycetales %K nomenclatural type %K Actinobacteria %I Microbiology Society, %X The name of the class Actinobacteria is illegitimate according to Rules 15, 22 and 27(3) because it was proposed without the designation of a nomenclatural type. I therefore propose to designate the order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917, 162 (Approved Lists 1980) as its nomenclatural type, based on Rule 22 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002287