Name: Draconibacteriaceae Du et al. 2014

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Dra.co.ni.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Draconibacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Draconibacteriaceae, the Draconibacterium family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: dra-ko-ni-bak-te-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Draconibacterium Du et al. 2014

Valid publication: Du ZJ, Wang Y, Dunlap C, Rooney AP, Chen GJ. Draconibacterium orientale gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from two distinct marine environments, and proposal of Draconibacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1690-1696. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2509-2511.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Prolixibacteraceae Huang et al. 2014

Parent taxon: Bacteroidales Krieg 2012

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. — Huang XF, Liu YJ, Dong JD, Qu LY, Zhang YY, Wang FZ, Tian XP, Zhang S. Mangrovibacterium diazotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a nitrogen-fixing bacterium isolated from a mangrove sediment, and proposal of Prolixibacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:875-881. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 1976
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