Family Erythrobacteraceae
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Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Erythrobacter Shiba and Simidu 1982.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Erythrobacter, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Erythrobacteraceae, the Erythrobacter family.
Valid publication: LEE (K.B.), LIU (C.T.), ANZAI (Y.), KIM (H.), AONO (T.) and OYAIZU (H.): The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1907-1919.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Xu et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Erythrobacter Shiba and Simidu 1982.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Erythrobacter, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Erythrobacteraceae, the Erythrobacter family.
Reference: XU (X.W.), WU (Y.H.), WANG (C.S.), WANG (X.G.), OREN (A.) and WU (M.): Croceicoccus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a yellow-pigmented bacterium from deep-sea sediment, and emended description of the family Erythrobacteraceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2247-2253.
Original article in IJSEM Online
