Name: Desulfoplanetaceae corrig. Waite et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfoplanetaceae, the Desulfoplanes family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Desulfoplanes Watanabe et al. 2015

Valid 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4645.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Desulfomicrobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Desulfomicrobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Desulfoplanaceae Waite et al. 2020	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • Waite et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Desulfovibrionales Kuever et al. 2006. 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.
  • Waite et al. (2020) assigned the genus Desulfoplanes Watanabe et al. 2015 to this family. 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.
  • The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Desulfomicrobiaceae Kuever et al. 2006. Publication: Watanabe M, Kojima H, Fukui M. Desulfoplanes formicivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a blackish meromictic lake, and emended description of the family Desulfomicrobiaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1902-1907.
  • Desulfoplanetaceae is the correct name 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).
  • Spelling correction conducted by LPSN on 2022-08-09.

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Record number: 29628