Family Desulfitobacteriaceae

Name: Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fi.to.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Desulfitobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfitobacteriaceae, the family of Desulfitobacterium

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-sul-fi-to-bak-te-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994

Effective publication: Stackebrandt E. The emended family Peptococcaceae and description of the families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stacke- brandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes., Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 286-290. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 196. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5596-5601.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Desulfitobacteriales 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. 🇦🇺
- 🚃 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.05031 (N = 7).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 23; JCM: 11; ATCC: 9; VKM: 5; NCIMB: 3; KCTC: 2; MCCC: 1; SYSU: 1; GDMCC: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Dehalobacter Holliger et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Desulfitobacterium Utkin et al. 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Desulfosporosinus Stackebrandt et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Paradesulfitobacterium Li et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Syntrophobotulus Friedrich et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E. The emended family Peptococcaceae and description of the families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stacke- brandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes., Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 286-290. 🇩🇪

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