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)

Original 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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Breed et al. (1948) assigned this family to the order "Chlamydobacteriales". 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.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Thiospirillopsis" 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.
  • 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: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Allobeggiatoa" Hinck et al. 2011	not validly published
    Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published, conserved name	correct name
    [Isobeggiatoa]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    [Maribeggiatoa]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    [Marithioploca]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    [Marithrix]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    [Parabeggiatoa]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    Thioflexithrix Gureeva et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    [Thiophysa]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    [Thiopilula]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description

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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