Family Ruaniaceae
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).
Ruaniaceae Tang et al. 2010, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Ruania Gu et al. 2007.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Ruania, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Ruaniaceae, the Ruania family.
Valid publication: TANG (S.K.), ZHI (X.Y.), WANG (Y.), WU (J.Y.), LEE (J.C.), KIM (C.J.), LOU (K.), XU (L.H.) and LI (W.J.): Haloactinobacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov. a halophilic actinobacterium, and proposal of Ruaniaceae fam. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2010, 60, 2113-2119.
Original article in IJSEM Online
