Name: Dethiobacteraceae Sorokin and Merkel 2025

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: De.thi.o.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Dethiobacter, the type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Dethiobacteraceae, the family of the genus Dethiobacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-t^hi-o-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Dethiobacter Sorokin et al. 2008

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this family to the class Dethiobacteria Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this family to the class Dethiobacteria Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this family to the order Dethiobacterales Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacterales ord. nov. In: Trujillo ME, Dedysh S, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Kämpfer P, Rainey FA, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this family to the order Dethiobacterales Sorokin and Merkel 2025. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the genus Dethiobacter Sorokin et al. 2008 to this family. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993. Publication: Sorokin DY, Tourova TP, Mussmann M, Muyzer G. Dethiobacter alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov., and Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov.: two novel representatives of reductive sulfur cycle from soda lakes. Extremophiles 2008; 12:431-439. 🇷🇺
  • ❗ Dethiobacteraceae 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: Syntrophomonadales Chuvochina et al. 2024

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. — 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. 🇦🇺

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