Family Hungateiclostridiaceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Hungateiclostridiaceae Zhang et al. 2018, fam. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Hungateiclostridium Zhang et al. 2018.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Hungateiclostridium, a bacterial genus name; N.L. suff. -aceae, ending designating a family name; N.L. fem. pl. n. Hungateiclostridiaceae a bacterial family named after the type genus Hungateiclostridium.
Valid publication: ZHANG, X., TU, B., DAI, L.-R., LAWSON, P. A., ZHENG, Z.-Z., LIU, L.-Y., DENG, Y., ZHANG, H. and CHENG, L. 2018. Petroclostridium xylanilyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a xylan-degrading bacterium isolated from an oilfield, and reclassification of clostridial cluster III members into four novel genera in a new Hungateiclostridiaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 68, 3197-3211.
Original article in IJSEM Online