Name: Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 (Approved Lists 1980)

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this family to the order Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (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.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Thioploca Lauterborn 1907 (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 Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (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.
  • 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".
  • According to Silva (1980) 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.
  • 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: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Allobeggiatoa" Hinck et al. 2011	not validly published
    Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, conserved name	correct name
    "Conidiothrix" Benecke ex Petersen 1921	not validly published
    "Candidatus Isobeggiatoa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Candidatus Maribeggiatoa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Candidatus Marithioploca" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Candidatus Marithrix" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Candidatus Parabeggiatoa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    Thioflexithrix Gureeva et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thionema" Kolkwitz 1938	not validly published
    "Candidatus Thiophysa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Candidatus Thiopilula" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published
    "Thiospirillopsis" Uphof 1927	not validly published

Parent taxon: Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: 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.

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