Name: Campylobacteraceae Vandamme and De Ley 1991

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Cam.py.lo.bac.ter.a’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Campylobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Campylobacteraceae, the Campylobacter family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Campylobacter Sebald and Véron 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Vandamme P, De Ley J. Proposal for a new family, Campylobacteraceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:451-455.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 41, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:581.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sulfurospirillaceae Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Waite et al. 2017 Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, et al. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front Microbiol 2017; 8:682.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family. — Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 genera from the family.
    • As of 2020-09-20 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Thiovulum Hinze 1913 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. 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.
  • Vandamme and De Ley (1991) assigned the genus Arcobacter Vandamme et al. 1991 to this family. Publication: Vandamme P, De Ley J. Proposal for a new family, Campylobacteraceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:451-455.
  • Vandamme and De Ley (1991) assigned the genus "Pseudohelicobacter" to this family. Publication: Vandamme P, De Ley J. Proposal for a new family, Campylobacteraceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1991; 41:451-455.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Camphylobacteraceae"; "Camplobacteraceae"; "Campylobactnaceae"; "Campywbacteraceae".
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1994. Publication: Ursing JB, Lior H, Owen RJ. Proposal of minimal standards for describing new species of the family Campylobacteraceae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:842-845.
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2017. Publication: On SLW, Miller WG, Houf K, Fox JG, Vandamme P. Minimal standards for describing new species belonging to the families Campylobacteraceae and Helicobacteraceae: Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Helicobacter and Wolinella spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5296-5311.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SL. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 13 and 16 September 1999, Baltimore, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1401-1403.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meeting, 31 July 2002, Paris, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2004; 54:291-292.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 7 and 10 September 2003, Aarhus, Denmark. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:195-196.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW, Miller WG. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Campylobacter and Related Bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, August 27 and August 31 2011, Vancouver, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5312-5314.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Miller WG, On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria: Minutes of the closed Meeting, 2 September 2009, Niigata, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2559-2560.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Campylobacter and related bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 21st August and 10th September 2019. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4622.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 61; DSM: 46; LMG: 45; NCTC: 33; ATCC: 32; CIP: 27; JCM: 16; NBIMCC: 3; CECT: 2; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Campylobacter Sebald and Véron 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dehalospirillum Scholz-Muramatsu et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    [Geospirillum]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    Sulfurospirillum Schumacher et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thiofractor" Makita et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Campylobacterales Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order I. Campylobacterales 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. 1145.

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