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Family Thermofilaceae

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).


 

Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Thermofilum Zillig and Gierl 1983.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Thermofilum, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermofilaceae, the Thermofilum family.
Valid publication: BURGGRAF (S.), HUBER (H.) and STETTER (K.O.): Reclassification of the crenarchaeal orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 657-660.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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