Name: Rubrobacteraceae Rainey et al. 1997

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Rubrobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Rubrobacteraceae, the Rubrobacter family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989

Valid publication: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Stackebrandt 2004 Stackebrandt E. Will we ever understand? The undescribable diversity of the prokaryotes. Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung 2004; 51:449-462. Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 2. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1403-1404.
  • Zhi et al. 2009 Zhi XY, Li WJ, 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. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.
  • Foesel et al. 2016 Foesel BU, Geppert A, Rohde M, Overmann J. Parviterribacter kavangonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Parviterribacter multiflagellatus sp. nov., novel members of Parviterribacteraceae fam. nov. within the order Solirubrobacterales, and emended descriptions of the classes Thermoleophilia and Rubrobacteria and their orders and families. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:652-665. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this family to the suborder "Rubrobacterineae" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned this family to the class Rubrobacteria Suzuki 2013. Publication: Suzuki K-i. Class V. Rubrobacteria class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2004-2005.
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt (2004) assigned this family to the subclass Rubrobacteridae Rainey et al. 1997. Publication: Stackebrandt E. Will we ever understand? The undescribable diversity of the prokaryotes. Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung 2004; 51:449-462.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rulnobacteraceae".
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Rainey et al.) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Stackebrandt et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; JCM: 6; CECT: 4; NBRC: 3; CGMCC: 3; KCTC: 2; CIP: 2; IFO: 2; ATCC: 2; BCRC: 1.
  • 🧍 Complete authorship reads: Rainey, Ward-Rainey and Stackebrandt.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Rubrobacterales Rainey et al. 1997

Assigned by: Reddy GS, Garcia-Pichel F. Description of Patulibacter americanus sp. nov., isolated from biological soil crusts, emended description of the genus Patulibacter Takahashi et al. 2006 and proposal of Solirubrobacterales ord. nov. and Thermoleophilales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:87-94.

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