Name: Acidaminobacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: A.cid.a.mi.no.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Acidaminobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Acidaminobacteraceae, family of the genus Acidaminobacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-kid-a-mi-no-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Acidaminobacter Stams and Hansen 1985

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Fisher et al. (2026) assigned the genus Fusibacter Ravot et al. 1999 to this family. Publication: Fisher LA, Dangre SR, McKaig JM, Lawson PA, Inman BG, Odenheimer A, Plattner TA, Quartini E, Carr CE, Doran PT, et al. Halotolerantifilum yawarlongkerapense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halotolerant and thermotolerant bacterium isolated from Lake Warden, and proposal of Guggenheimellaceae fam. nov. in the order Peptostreptococcales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7084. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Clostridiaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980). 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; CIP: 1; JCM: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acidaminobacter Stams and Hansen 1985	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halotolerantifilum Fisher et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Helicovermis Miyazaki et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Peptostreptococcales Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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