Family Oligoflexaceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Oligoflexaceae Nakai et al. 2014, fam. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Oligoflexus Nakai et al. 2014.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Oligoflexus, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Oligoflexaceae, the family of the genus Oligoflexus.
Valid publication: NAKAI, R., NISHIJIMA, M., TAZATO, N., HANDA, Y., KARRAY, F., SAYADI, S., ISODA, H. and NAGANUMA, T. 2014. Oligoflexus tunisiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, filamentous bacterium of a novel proteobacterial lineage, and description of Oligoflexaceae fam. nov., Oligoflexales ord. nov. and Oligoflexia classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 3353-3359..
Original article in IJSEM Online