Family Desulfurococcaceae
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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).
Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Desulfurococcus Zillig and Stetter 1983.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Desulfurococcus, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfurococcaceae, the Desulfurococcus family.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 10. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1983, 33, 438-440.
Effective publication: ZILLIG (W.), STETTER (K.O.), PRANGISHVILLI (D.), SCHÄFER (W.), WUNDERL (S.), JANEKOVIC (D.), HOLZ (I.) and PALM (P.): Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig., 1982, C3, 304-317.
Validation List no. 10 in IJSEM Online
→ Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997.
Type genus: ¤ Desulfurococcus Zillig and Stetter 1983.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Desulfurococcus, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfurococcaceae, the Desulfurococcus family.
Reference: BURGGRAF (S.), HUBER (H.) and STETTER (K.O.): Reclassification of the crenarchaeal orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 657-660.
Original article in IJSEM Online
