Name: Bacteroidaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Pribram E. Klassification der Schizomyceten. F. Deuticke, Leipzig, 1933.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Ristellaceae" Prevot 1938	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Spherophoraceae" Prevot 1938	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.

• Notes:
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this family to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Acetomicrobium Soutschek et al. 1985 to this family. 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.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Megamonas Shah and Collins 1983 to this family. 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.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Streptobacillus Levaditi et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Dialister" to this family. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the genus Anaerorhabdus Shah and Collins 1986 to this family. Publication: Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Phylum XIV. Bacteroidetes phyl. 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. 25.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Bacieroidaceae"; "Bacteroiclaceae"; "Bacteroideeaceae"; "Baczemidaceae"; "Barteroidaceae"; "Bncteroidaceae".
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Olsen I, Shah HN. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Gram-negative anaerobic rods. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1051-1055.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Olsen I, Shah HN. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Gram-negative anaerobic rods. Minutes of the meeting, 29 July 2002, Paris, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2003; 53:923-924.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acetofilamentum Dietrich et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acetothermus Dietrich et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Capsularis Prévot 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Fusocillus" Prevot 1938	not validly published
    "Massilibacteroides" Jneid et al. 2018	not validly published
    Phocaeicola Al Masalma et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Ristella" Prevot 1938	not validly published
    [Sphaerophorus]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    "Spherophorus" Prevot 1938	not validly published
    "Zuberella" Prevot 1938	not validly published

Parent taxon: Bacteroidales Krieg 2012

Assigned by: Krieg NR. Order I. Bacteroidales ord. 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. 25.

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