Family Conexibacteraceae
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).
Conexibacteraceae Stackebrandt 2005, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Conexibacter Monciardini et al. 2003.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Conexibacter, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Conexibacteraceae, the Conexibacter family.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 102. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 547-549.
Effective publication: STACKEBRANDT (E.): Will we ever understand? The undescribable diversity of the prokaryotes. Acta Microbiol. Immunol. Hung., 2004, 51, 449-462.
Validation List no. 102 in IJSEM Online
→ Conexibacteraceae Stackebrandt 2005 emend. Zhi et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Conexibacter Monciardini et al. 2003.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Conexibacter, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Conexibacteraceae, the Conexibacter 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