Name: Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fu.ro.coc.ca’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Desulfurococcus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfurococcaceae, the Desulfurococcus family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-sul-fu-ro-kok-KA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Desulfurococcus Zillig and Stetter 1983

Effective publication: Zillig W, Stetter KO, Pranghhvilli D, Schäfer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P. Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteaks. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C 1982; 3:304-317. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 10. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:438-440.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Ignisphaeraceae" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Ignicoccaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Ignicoccaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Ignisphaeraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Burggraf et al. 1997 Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. 🇩🇪 Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1275-1276.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 4 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Burggraf et al. (1997) assigned the genus Aeropyrum Sako et al. 1996 to this family. Publication: Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 Burggraf et al. (1997) assigned the genus "Thermodiscus" to this family. Publication: Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 Jochimsen et al. (1997) assigned the genus Stetteria Jochimsen et al. 1998 to this family. Publication: Jochimsen B, Peinemann-Simon S, Volker H, Stuben D, Botz R, Stoffers P, Dando PR, Thomm M. Stetteria hydrogenophila, gen. nov. and sp. nov., a novel mixotrophic sulfur-dependent crenarchaeote isolated from Milos, Greece. Extremophiles 1997; 1:67-73. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 St John et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nanoclepta" St John et al. 2019 to this family. Publication: St John E, Liu Y, Podar M, Stott MB, Meneghin J, Chen Z, Lagutin K, Mitchell K, Reysenbach AL. A new symbiotic nanoarchaeote (Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus) and its host (Zestosphaera tikiterensis gen. nov., sp. nov.) from a New Zealand hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:94-106. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 St John et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nanopusillus" Wurch et al. 2016 to this family. Publication: St John E, Liu Y, Podar M, Stott MB, Meneghin J, Chen Z, Lagutin K, Mitchell K, Reysenbach AL. A new symbiotic nanoarchaeote (Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus) and its host (Zestosphaera tikiterensis gen. nov., sp. nov.) from a New Zealand hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:94-106. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Thermodiscus Stetter 2003 to this family. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulfurowccaceae"; "Desuliurococcaceae"; "Desuljurococcaceae"; "Desullurococcaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Huber et al. (2000). 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 authority of the taxon name (Zillig and Stetter) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Zillig et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 16; JCM: 12; ATCC: 6; VKM: 5; UQM: 1; OCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfurococcus Zillig and Stetter 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Igneococcus" Burggraf et al. 1997	not validly published	preferred name
    Ignicoccus Huber et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ignisphaera Niederberger et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Staphylothermus Stetter and Fiala 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfophobococcus Hensel et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thermogladius" Osburn and Amend 2011	not validly published	synonym
    Thermogladius Kochetkova et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermosphaera Huber et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Zestomicrobium" Dzhuraeva et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Zestosphaera St John et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002

Assigned by: Huber H, Stetter KO. Order II. Desulfurococcales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 179-197. 🇺🇸

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