Name: Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: 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

Gender: 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: synonym

Correct name: Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Desulfonisporaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Desulfotomaculaceae Stackebrandt 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Pelotomaculaceae" Hao et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Pelotomaculaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Desulfocucumaceae Watanabe et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    Desulfurisporaceae Watanabe et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Desulfallaceae Watanabe et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Desulfohalotomaculaceae" Watanabe et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Thermincolaceae Stackebrandt 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Desulfofarciminaceae" Watanabe et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Desulfallantaceae corrig. Watanabe et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Desulfocucumeraceae corrig. Watanabe et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Dehalobacteriaceae" O'Connor et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Desulfitisporaceae Sorokin and Merkel 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Desulfitibacterales 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.
  • 🧕 Lv et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Moorellales Lv et al. 2020. 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.
  • 🧒 Lv et al. (2020) assigned the genus Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006 to this family. 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.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has 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.
  • ❗ Desulfitibacteraceae 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).

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