Family Actinospicaceae
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Actinospicaceae Cavaletti et al. 2006, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Actinospica Cavaletti et al. 2006.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Actinospica, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Actinospicaceae, the Actinospica family.
Valid publication: CAVALETTI (L.), MONCIARDINI (P.), SCHUMANN (P.), ROHDE (M.), BAMONTE (R.), BUSTI (E.), SOSIO (M.) and DONADIO (S.): Actinospica robiniae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Actinospica acidiphila sp. nov.: proposal for Actinospicaceae fam. nov. and Catenulisporineae subord. nov. in the order Actinomycetales. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1747-1753.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: In the title of the paper by Cavaletti et al. 2006, the suborder Catenulisporineae is erroneously cited as Catenulisporinae (sic).
Reference: Erratum in IJSEM Online.
→ Actinospicaceae Cavaletti et al. 2006 emend. Zhi et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Actinospica Cavaletti et al. 2006.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Actinospica, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Actinospicaceae, the Actinospica family.
Reference: ZHI (X.Y.), LI (W.J.) and STACKEBRANDT (E.): An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 589-608.
Original article in IJSEM Online
