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Family Microbacteriaceae

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).


 

Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Microbacterium Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Microbacterium, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Microbacteriaceae, the Microbacterium family.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 53. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1995, 45, 418-419.
Effective publication: PARK (Y.H.), SUZUKI (K.I.), YIM (D.G.), LEE (K.C.), KIM (E.), YOON (J.S.), KIM (S.J.), KHO (Y.H.), GOODFELLOW (M.) and KOMAGATA (K.): Suprageneric classification of peptidoglycan group B actinomyces by nucleotide sequencing of 5S ribosomal RNA. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 1993, 64, 307-313.
Validation List no. 53 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online

Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995 emend. Rainey et al. 1997 (complete authorship reads Rainey, Ward-Rainey and Stackebrandt).
Type genus: ¤ Microbacterium Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Microbacterium, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Microbacteriaceae, the Microbacterium family.
Reference: 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

Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Microbacterium Orla-Jensen 1919 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Microbacterium, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Microbacteriaceae, the Microbacterium 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

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