Family Thermoleophilaceae
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).
Thermoleophilaceae Stackebrandt 2005, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Thermoleophilum Zarilla and Perry 1986.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Thermoleophilum, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermoleophilaceae, the Thermoleophilum family.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 102. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 547-549.
Effective publication: STACKEBRANDT (E.): Will we ever understand? The undescribable diversity of the prokaryotes. Acta Microbiol. Immunol. Hung., 2004, 51, 449-462.
Validation List no. 102 in IJSEM Online
→ Thermoleophilaceae Stackebrandt 2005 emend. Zhi et al. 2009.
Type genus: ¤ Thermoleophilum Zarilla and Perry 1986.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Thermoleophilum, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermoleophilaceae, the Thermoleophilum 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
