Family Verrucomicrobiaceae
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).
Verrucomicrobiaceae Ward-Rainey et al. 1996, fam. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Verrucomicrobium Schlesner 1988.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Verrucomicrobium, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiaceae, the Verrucomicrobium family.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 57. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1996, 46, 625-626.
Effective publication: WARD-RAINEY (N.), RAINEY (F.A.), SCHLESNER (H.) and STACKEBRANDT (E.): Assignment of hitherto unidentified 16S rDNA species to a main line of descent within the domain Bacteria. Microbiology, 1995, 141, 3247-3250.
Validation List no. 57 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online
→ Verrucomicrobiaceae Ward-Rainey et al. 1996 emend. Yoon et al. 2008.
Type genus: ¤ Verrucomicrobium Schlesner 1988.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Verrucomicrobium, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiaceae, the Verrucomicrobium family.
Reference: YOON (J.), MATSUO (Y.), ADACHI (K.), NOZAWA (M.), MATSUDA (S.), KASAI (H.) and YOKOTA (A.): Description of Persicirhabdus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ishigakijimensis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ponti sp. nov., Roseibacillus persicicus sp. nov., Luteolibacter pohnpeiensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Luteolibacter algae sp. nov., six marine members of the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia', and emended descriptions of the class Verrucomicrobiae, the order Verrucomicrobiales and the family Verrucomicrobiaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 998-1007.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Verrucomicrobiaceae Ward-Rainey et al. 1996 emend. Takeda et al. 2008.
Type genus: ¤ Verrucomicrobium Schlesner 1988.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Verrucomicrobium, type genus of the family; L. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiaceae, the Verrucomicrobium family.
Reference: TAKEDA (M.), YONEYA (A.), MIYAZAKI (Y.), KONDO (K.), MAKITA (H.), KONDOH (M.), SUZUKI (I.) and KOIZUMI (J.): Prosthecobacter fluviatilis sp. nov., which lacks the bacterial tubulin btubA and btubB genes. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 1561-1565.
Original article in IJSEM Online
