Family Egicoccaceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Egicoccaceae Zhang et al. 2016, fam. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Egicoccus Zhang et al. 2016.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Egicoccus type genus of the family; -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Egicoccaceae, the family of the genus Egicoccus.
Valid publication: ZHANG, Y. G., CHEN, J. Y., WANG, H. F., XIAO, M., YANG, L. L., GUO, J. W., ZHOU, E. M., ZHANG, Y. M. and LI, W. J. 2016. Egicoccus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic, alkalitolerant actinobacterium and proposal of Egicoccaceae fam. nov. and Egicoccales ord. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 530-535.
Original article in IJSEM Online
