Etymology:N.L. fem. n.Beggiatoa, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff.-aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n.Beggiatoaceae, the Beggiatoa family
Effective publication:
Migula N. Ueber ein neues System der Bakterien. Arbeiten aus dem Bakteriologischen Institut der Technischen Hochschule zu Karlsruhe 1894; 1:235-238.
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
Bergey et al. (1923) assigned this family to the order "Thiobacteriales".Publication:
Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1923.
Breed et al. (1948) assigned this family to the order "Chlamydobacteriales" Buchanan 1917.Publication:
Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
Gureeva et al. (2019) assigned this family to the order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005.Publication:
Gureeva MV, Belousova EV, Dubinina GA, Novikov AA, Kopitsyn DS, Grabovich MY. Thioflexithrix psekupsensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous gliding sulfur bacterium from the family Beggiatoaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:798-804.
Migula (1894) assigned the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family.Publication:
Migula W. Über ein neues System der Bakterien. Arbeiten aus dem Bakteriologischen Institut der Technischen Hochschule zu Karlsruhe 1894; 1:235-238.
The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Thiotrichaceae" Pringsheim 1949.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.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Beggiaioaceae"; "Beggialoaceae"; "Beggiotaceae"; "Beggitaoaceae"; "Begqiatoaceae"; "Boggiatoaceae"; "Brggiatoaceae"; "Jkggiatoaceae".
The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 2; DSM: 2; KCTC: 1.
According to Silva (1980) in the Index Nominum Genericorum, this family was assigned to Cyanophyceae/Bacteria. — Silva (1980) remarks that in the Index Nominum Genericorum, this family was assigned to Cyanophyceae/Bacteria.Publication:
Silva PC. Names of classes and families of living algae with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1980.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4 Total number of child taxa: 19
Assigned by:
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.
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