Name: Desulfovirgulaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.vir.gu.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Desulfovirgula, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfovirgulaceae, family of the genus Desulfovirgula

Pronunciation, gender: de-sul-fo-wir-gu-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Desulfovirgula Kaksonen et al. 2007

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Calderihabitantaceae Lv et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Caldanaerobiaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Ammonificaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Carboxydothermaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Desulfotomaculales 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.
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Desulfofundulus Watanabe et al. 2018 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Desulfovirgula Kaksonen et al. 2007 to this family. 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 been placed in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae Wiegel 2010. Publication: Perevalova AA, Kublanov IV, Baslerov RV, Zhang G, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Brockia lithotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium from a terrestrial hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:479-483.
  • ❗ Desulfovirgulaceae 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).

Parent taxon: Thermoanaerobacterales Wiegel 2010

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Wiegel J. Order III. Thermoanaerobacterales ord. 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. 1224.

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