Name: Desulfobulbaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Desulfobulbus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfobulbaceae, the Desulfobulbus family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Desulfobulbus Widdel 1981

Effective publication: Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Family II. Desulfobulbaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 988.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 107. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Desulfocapsaceae Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Desulfurivibrionaceae Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Waite et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Desulfobulbales Waite et al. 2020. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulforbulbaceae"; "Desulfubulbaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Hashimoto et al. (2022). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01853 (N = 8).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 30; JCM: 14; ATCC: 10; KCTC: 3; NBRC: 3; VKM: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Desulfatifera" Van Vliet et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Desulfobia" Van Vliet et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Desulfobulbus" Boone and Bryant 1980	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Desulfobulbus Widdel 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfocapsa Janssen et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfocastanea Galushko and Kuever 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfofustis Friedrich et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfogranum Galushko and Kuever 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfolithobacter Hashimoto et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfomarina Hashimoto et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfopila Suzuki et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfoprunum Junghare and Schink 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulforhopalus Isaksen and Teske 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfosediminicola Song et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfotalea Knoblauch et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfurivibrio Sorokin et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Electronema" Trojan et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Electrothrix" Trojan et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Desulfobacterales Kuever et al. 2006

Assigned by: Kuever J, Rainey FA, Widdel F. Order III. Desulfobacterales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 959.

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