Name: Beggiatoaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Beg.gia.to.a’ce.ae. 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

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: beg-gia-to-A-ke-a͡e, 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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Thiosiphonaceae" Klas 1936	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• 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.
  • 🧕 Clements (1909) assigned this family to the order "Bacteriales" Clements 1909. Publication: Clements FE. The genera of fungi. The H.W. Wilson Company, Minneapolis, 1909.
  • 🧕 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 (1900) assigned this family to the uncategorized "Thiobacteria". Publication: Migula W. System der Bakterien, Vol. 2. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1900.
  • 🧒 Bergey et al. (1923) assigned the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. 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 the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. 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 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.
  • 🧒 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Thiotrichaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 131. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bcggialoaceae"; "Beggiaioaceae"; "Beggialoaceae"; "Beggiaotoaceae"; "Beggiatoeae"; "Beggiotaceae"; "Beggitaoaceae"; "Begglatoaceae"; "Begqiatoaceae"; "Boggiatoaceae"; "Brggiatoaceae"; "Jkggiatoaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: UNIQEM: 3; KCTC: 2; DSM: 2; ATCC: 2.
  • 🧍 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: 21

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Albibeggiatoa" Ravin et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Allobeggiatoa" Hinck et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Beggiatoa Trevisan 1842 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, conserved name	correct name
    "Conidiothrix" Benecke ex Petersen 1921	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Halobeggiatoa" Grünke et al. 2012	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Isobeggiatoa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Maribeggiatoa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Marithioploca" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Marithrix" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Parabeggiatoa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Thioflexithrix Gureeva et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thioflexothrix" Orlova et al. 2015	not validly published	synonym
    "Candidatus Thiolava" Danovaro et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Thiomargarita Schulz et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thionema" Kolkwitz 1938	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Thiophysa" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Thiopilula" Salman et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Thioploca Lauterborn 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thiosiphon" Klas 1936	not validly published	preferred name
    "Thiospirillopsis" Uphof 1927	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Venteria" Fonseca et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

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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