Family Thermoflexaceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Thermoflexaceae Dodsworth et al. 2014, fam. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Thermoflexus Dodsworth et al. 2014.
Etymology: N.L. n. Thermoflexus, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermoflexaceae, the family of the genus Thermoflexus.
Valid publication: DODSWORTH, J. A., GEVORKIAN, J., DESPUJOS, F., COLE, J. K., MURUGAPIRAN, S. K., MING, H., LI, W.-J., ZHANG, G., DOHNALKOVA, A. and HEDLUND, B. P. 2014. Thermoflexus hugenholtzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, filamentous bacterium representing a novel class in the Chloroflexi, Thermoflexia classis nov., and description of Thermoflexaceae fam. nov. and Thermoflexales ord. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 2119-2127..
Original article in IJSEM Online