Family Glycomycetaceae
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).
Glycomycetaceae Rainey et al. 1997 (complete authorship reads Rainey, Ward-Rainey and Stackebrandt), fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Glycomyces Labeda et al. 1985.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Glycomyces, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Glycomycetaceae, the Glycomyces family.
Valid publication: STACKEBRANDT (E.), RAINEY (F.A.) and WARD-RAINEY (N.L.): Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 479-491.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Glycomycetaceae Rainey et al. 1997 (complete authorship reads Rainey, Ward-Rainey and Stackebrandt) emend. Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2005.
Type genus: ¤ Glycomyces Labeda et al. 1985.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Glycomyces, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Glycomycetaceae, the Glycomyces family.
Reference: LABEDA (D.P.) and KROPPENSTEDT (R.M.): Stackebrandtia nassauensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and emended description of the family Glycomycetaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1687-1691.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: The ending to denote a family is -aceae, not -taceae as erroneously cited in the paper by Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2005.
→ Glycomycetaceae Rainey et al. 1997 (complete authorship reads Rainey, Ward-Rainey and Stackebrandt) emend. Zhi et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Glycomyces Labeda et al. 1985.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Glycomyces, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Glycomycetaceae, the Glycomyces 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
