Family Lentimicrobiaceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Lentimicrobiaceae Sun et al. 2017, fam. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Lentimicrobium Sun et al. 2017.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Lentimicrobium, type genus of the family; suffix. -aceae, ending to donate a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Lentimicrobiaceae, the family of the genus Lentimicrobium.
Valid publication: SUN, L., TOYONAGA, M., OHASHI, A., TOURLOUSSE, D. M., MATSUURA, N., MENG, X. Y., TAMAKI, H., HANADA, S., CRUZ, R., YAMAGUCHI, T. and SEKIGUCHI, Y. 2017. Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov.. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 2635-2642.
Original article in IJSEM Online