Name: Cardiobacteriaceae Dewhirst et al. 1990

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Car.di.o.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Cardiobacterium, bacterium of the heart; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Cardiobacteriaceae, the family of cardiobacteria

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Cardiobacterium Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ, La Fontaine S, Rood JI. Transfer of Kingella indologenes (Snell and Lapage 1976) to the genus Suttonella gen. nov. as Suttonella indologenes comb. nov.; transfer of Bacteroides nodosus (Beveridge 1941) to the genus Dichelobacter gen. nov. as Dichelobacter nodosus comb. nov.; and assignment of the genera Cardiobacterium, Dichelobacter, and Suttonella to Cardiobacteriaceae fam. nov. in the gamma division of Proteobacteria on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:426-433.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cardiobacteraceae"; "Cardiohacteriaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 6; DSM: 6; ATCC: 5; NCTC: 4; CIP: 4.

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
    Cardiobacterium Slotnick and Dougherty 1964 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dichelobacter Dewhirst et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Fusiformis]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    Suttonella Dewhirst et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cardiobacteriales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order IV. Cardiobacteriales 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 B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 123.

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Record number: 276