Family Brucellaceae

Name: Brucellaceae Breed et al. 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Bru.cel.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Brucella, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Brucellaceae, the Brucella family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: bru-kel-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Brucella Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith (eds) NR. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957.

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: synonym

Correct name: Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Phyllobacteriaceae Mergaert and Swings 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Mabikibacteraceae Choi et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Notoacmeibacteraceae Huang et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this family to the order Rhizobiales Kuykendall 2006. Publication: Kuykendall LD. Order VI. Rhizobiales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 324. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Hördt et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Noguchia" Olitsky et al. 1934 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 Brucella Meyer and Shaw 1920 (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 Brucella Meyer and Shaw 1920 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith (eds) NR. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Bordetella Moreno-López 1952 (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 Calymmatobacterium Aragão and Vianna 1913 (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 Actinobacillus Brumpt 1910 (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 Haemophilus corrig. Winslow et al. 1917 (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 Pasteurella Trevisan 1887 (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 Moraxella Lwoff 1939 (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.
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Mycoplana Gray and Thornton 1928 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Hwang and Cho (2008) assigned the genus Pseudochrobactrum Kämpfer et al. 2006 to this family. Publication: Hwang CY, Cho BC. Cohaesibacter gelatinilyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a distinct branch in the order Rhizobiales, and proposal of Cohaesibacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:267-277. 🇰🇷
  • 🧒 Kämpfer et al. (2010) assigned the genus Paenochrobactrum Kämpfer et al. 2010 to this family. Publication: Kampfer P, Martin E, Lodders N, Jackel U, Huber BE, Schumann P, Langer S, Busse HJ, Scholz H. Paenochrobactrum gallinarii gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from air of a duck barn, and reclassification of Pseudochrobactrum glaciei as Paenochrobactrum glaciei comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1493-1498. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 Kämpfer et al. (2013) assigned the genus Falsochrobactrum Kämpfer et al. 2013 to this family. Publication: Kampfer P, Glaeser S, Busse HJ, Eisenberg T, Scholz H. Falsochrobactrum ovis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a sheep. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3841-3847. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 Teyssier et al. (2007) assigned the genus Ochrobactrum Holmes et al. 1988 to this family. Publication: Teyssier C, Marchandin H, Jean-Pierre H, Masnou A, Dusart G, Jumas-Bilak E. Ochrobactrum pseudintermedium sp. nov., a novel member of the family Brucellaceae, isolated from human clinical samples. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1007-1013. 🇫🇷
  • 🧒 Yoon et al. (2008) assigned the genus Daeguia Yoon et al. 2008 to this family. Publication: Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Park S, Oh TK. Daeguia caeni gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sludge of a textile dye works. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:168-172. 🇰🇷
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328. 🇨🇦
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Bartonellaceae Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: diCenzo GC, Yang Y, Young JPW, Kuzmanovic N. Refining the taxonomy of the order Hyphomicrobiales (Rhizobiales) based on whole genome comparisons of over 130 type strains. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6328. 🇨🇦
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria: minutes of the 2024 closed annual meeting. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6680. 🇫🇮
  • ❗ Brucellaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪

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