Family Cellulosilyticaceae

Name: Cellulosilyticaceae Dong and Zhou 2023

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Cel.lu.lo.si.ly.ti.ca’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Cellulosilyticum, a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. pl. n. Cellulosilyticaceae, the Cellulosilyticum family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kel-lu-lo-si-ly-ti-KA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Cellulosilyticum Cai and Dong 2010

Effective publication: Dong Z, Zhou L. Cellulosilyticaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2016, p. 1-3. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 212. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5931.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Natranaerovirgaceae Sorokin and Merkel 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Anaerotignaceae" Gilroy et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
Anaerotignaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Lachnospirales Chuvochina et al. 2024. 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. 🇦🇺
- 🧕 Dong and Zhou (2016) assigned this family to the phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Dong Z, Zhou L. Cellulosilyticaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2016, p. 1-3. 🇨🇳
- 🧒 Allen-Vercoe et al. (2023) assigned the genus Holtiella Allen-Vercoe et al. 2023 to this family. Publication: Allen-Vercoe E, Daigneault MC, Vancuren SJ, Cochrane K, O'Neal LL, Sankaranarayanan K, Lawson PA. Holtiella tumoricola gen. nov. sp. nov., isolated from a human clinical sample. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5958. 🇨🇦
- 🧒 Dong and Zhou (2016) assigned the genus Cellulosilyticum Cai and Dong 2010 to this family. Publication: Dong Z, Zhou L. Cellulosilyticaceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2016, p. 1-3. 🇨🇳
- 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010. Publication: Cai S, Dong X. Cellulosilyticum ruminicola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the rumen of yak, and reclassification of Clostridium lentocellum as Cellulosilyticum lentocellum comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:845-849. 🇨🇳
- ❗ Cellulosilyticaceae 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: Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (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. — Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱

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