Family Marinifilaceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Marinifilaceae Iino et al. 2014, fam. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Marinifilum Iino et al. 2014.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Marinifilum, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Marinifilaceae, family of the genus Marinifilum.
Valid publication: IINO, T., MORI, K., ITOH, T., KUDO, T., SUZUKI, K.-I. and OHKUMA, M. 2014. Description of Mariniphaga anaerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively aerobic marine bacterium isolated from tidal flat sediment, reclassification of the Draconibacteriaceae as a later heterotypic synonym of the Prolixibacteraceae and description of the family Marinifilaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 3660-3667..
Original article in IJSEM Online