Name: Acidobacteriaceae Thrash and Coates 2012

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: A.ci.do.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Acidobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Acidobacteriaceae, the Acidobacterium family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-ki-do-bak-te-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Acidobacterium Kishimoto et al. 1991

Effective publication: Thrash JC, Coates JD. Family I. Acidobacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 728. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Foesel et al. 2016 Foesel BU, Mayer S, Luckner M, Wanner G, Rohde M, Overmann J. Occallatibacter riparius gen. nov., sp. nov. and Occallatibacter savannae sp. nov., acidobacteria isolated from Namibian soils, and emended description of the family Acidobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:219-229. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1607-1611.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 4 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this family to the order Acidobacteriales Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Thrash JC, Coates JD. Family I. Acidobacteriaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 728. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Messyasz et al. (2024) assigned the genus Tunturibacter Messyasz et al. 2024 to this family. Publication: Messyasz A, Mannisto MK, Kerkhof LJ, Haggblom MM. Genome analysis and description of Tunturibacter gen. nov. expands the diversity of Terriglobia in tundra soils. Environ Microbiol 2024; 26:e16640. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Tank and Bryant (2015) assigned the genus "Candidatus Chloracidobacterium" Bryant et al. 2007 to this family. Publication: Tank M, Bryant DA. Chloracidobacterium thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov.: an anoxygenic microaerophilic chlorophotoheterotrophic acidobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1426-1430. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acidbacteriaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Belova et al. (2022). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 41; LMG: 15; VKM: 10; ATCC: 8; NBRC: 8; HAMBI: 6; KCTC: 6; CGMCC: 5; NCCB: 4; CECT: 3.
  • 🧍 In Validation List No. 143, the year of publication of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4 was erroneously cited as 2010. The correct year of publication should be 2011. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016. 🇩🇪

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acidicapsa Kulichevskaya et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Acidiflorens" Woodcroft et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Acidipila Okamura et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acidisarcina Belova et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acidobacterium Kishimoto et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alloacidobacterium Zhang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bryocella Dedysh et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Edaphobacter Koch et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella Pankratov and Dedysh 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Occallatibacter Foesel et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Paracidobacterium Zhang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudacidobacterium Zhang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Silvibacterium Lladó et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Telmatobacter Pankratov et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Terracidiphilus García-Fraile et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Terriglobus Eichorst et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tunturibacter Messyasz et al. 2024	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Tunturiibacter corrig. Messyasz et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Terriglobales Thrash and Coates 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638. 🇩🇪

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