Etymology:
Chla.my.dia’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n.Chlamydia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff.-aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n.Chlamydiaceae, the Chlamydia family
Effective publication:
Rake G. Family II. Chlamydiaceae Rake, Fam. Nov. In Breed, R. S., E. G. D. Murray & N. R. Smith (4s). 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
Everett et al. 1999
Everett KD, Bush RM, Andersen AA. Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam. nov. and Simkaniaceae fam. nov., each containing one monotypic genus, revised taxonomy of the family Chlamydiaceae, including a new genus and five new species, and standards for the identification of organisms. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:415-440.
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:937-939. Notes:
⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.
🧍 In a "Letter to the Editor", several bacteriologists [1] strongly object to the reclassification of the family Chlamydiaceae proposed by Everett et al. 1999. — 🧍 See also, the reply by Everett and Andersen [2].
Sachse et al. 2015
Sachse K, Bavoil PM, Kaltenboeck B, Stephens RS, Kuo CC, Rossello-Mora R, Horn M. Emendation of the family Chlamydiaceae: proposal of a single genus, Chlamydia, to include all currently recognized species. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:99-103.
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 22. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2028-2029.
Notes:
🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this family to the order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (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.
🧕 Philip (1962) assigned this family to the order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Philip CB. Appendix G. Summary of tickborne rickettsioses. Report 2nd Meeting FAOIE Expert Panel on Tick-borne Diseases of Livestock, Cairo. United Nations, Rome, 1962.
🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Colettsia" to this family. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Ricolesia" 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.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chamydiaceae"; "Chfumydiaceae"; "Chiamydiaceae"; "Chlamydiacaceae"; "Thlamydiaceae".
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Chlamydiae: minutes of the closed meeting, 21 June 2010, Hof bei Salzburg, Austria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2694.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Borel N, Horn M, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 20 March 2019, Seattle, WA, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3654-3656.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Borel N, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae, minutes of the closed meeting, 07 October 2021, via Webex. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5213.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Borel N, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae, minutes of the closed meeting, 10 September 2020, via Zoom. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4620.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 21; ATCC: 16.
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: 9
Assigned by:
Everett KD, Bush RM, Andersen AA. Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam. nov. and Simkaniaceae fam. nov., each containing one monotypic genus, revised taxonomy of the family Chlamydiaceae, including a new genus and five new species, and standards for the identification of organisms. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:415-440.
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