Name: Brevibacteriaceae Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Brevibacterium Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Breed RS. The Brevibacteriaceae fam. nov. of order Eubacteriales. Riassunti delle Communicazioni, VI Congresso Internazionale Microbiologia Roma, 1953; 1:10-15.

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

• Emendations:
  • Stackebrandt et al. 1997 Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.
  • Zhi et al. 2009 Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this family to the suborder Micrococcineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. 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 (1953) assigned this family to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Breed RS. The Brevibacteriaceae fam. nov. of order Eubacteriales. Riassunti delle Communicazione VI. Congresso Internazionale di Microbiologia, Roma 1953; 1:13-14.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Salam et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Brevibacteriales Salam et al. 2020. Publication: Salam N, Jiao JY, Zhang XT, Li WJ. Update on the classification of higher ranks in the phylum Actinobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1331-1355.
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt et al. (1997) assigned this family to the suborder Micrococcineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this family to the suborder Micrococcineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Kurthia Trevisan 1885 (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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Brentboctcriaceae"; "Breuibactcriaceae"; "Brevihacleriaceae"; "Brevihacteriaceae".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Toth E, Schumann P, Hamada M, Suzuki KI. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the suborder Micrococcineae Minutes of the meeting, 29 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2068-2069.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 56; DSM: 52; ATCC: 26; CIP: 26; CCUG: 24; VKM: 20; NBRC: 19; IFO: 19; KCTC: 13; NCIMB: 12.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Brevibacterium Breed 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Saxibacter" Tian et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Sediminivirga Zhang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Spelaeicoccus Lee 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Micrococcales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

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