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Family Gemmatimonadaceae

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).


 

Gemmatimonadaceae Zhang et al. 2003, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Gemmatimonas Zhang et al. 2003.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Gemmatimonas, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Gemmatimonadaceae, the Gemmatimonas family.
Valid publication: ZHANG (H.), SEKIGUCHI (Y.), HANADA (S.), HUGENHOLTZ (P.), KIM (H.), KAMAGATA (Y.) and NAKAMURA (K.): Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 1155-1163.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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