Family Caldicellulosiruptoraceae

Name: Caldicellulosiruptoraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Cal.di.cel.lu.lo.si.rup.to.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Caldicellulosiruptor, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Caldicellulosiruptoraceae, family of the genus Caldicellulosiruptor

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kal-di-kel-lu-lo-si-rup-to-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Caldicellulosiruptor Rainey et al. 1995

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993. 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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Caldicellulosiraptoraceae"; "Caldicelluosiruptoraceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 13; ATCC: 7; NBRC: 2; IFO: 2; VKM: 2; JCM: 2; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Caldicellulosiruptor Rainey et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Caldicellulosiruptorales Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.43533Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 43533

• Previous versions:

  • Version	Date	JSON
    1	2026-03-31