Family Desulfitibacteraceae

Name: Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fi.ti.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Desulfitibacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfitibacteraceae, the family of the genus Desulfitibacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-sul-fi-ti-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006

Valid publication: Lv XM, Yang M, Dai LR, Tu B, Chang C, Huang Y, Deng Y, Lawson PA, Zhang H, Cheng L, et al. Zhaonella formicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic formate-utilizing bacterium isolated from Shengli oilfield, and proposal of four novel families and Moorellales ord. nov. in the phylum Firmicutes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3361-3373. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4421-4424.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Gtari and Ventura (2025) assigned this family to the order Neomoorellales Gtari and Ventura 2025. Publication: Gtari M, Ventura S. Proposal of Neomoorella gen. nov. as a replacement name for the illegitimate prokaryotic genus name Moorella Collins et al. 1994. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6779. 🇹🇳
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20. 🇧🇪
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Metallumcola" Hsu et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Desulfitibacterales 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. 🇦🇺

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