Name: Flexistipitaceae Spring et al. 2022

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Fle.xi.sti.pi.ta.ce’ae. N.L. masc. n. Flexistipes, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Flexistipitaceae, the Flexistipes family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Flexistipes Fiala et al. 2000

Effective publication: Spring S, Rohde M, Bunk B, Sproer C, Will SE, Neumann-Schaal M. New insights into the energy metabolism and taxonomy of Deferribacteres revealed by the characterization of a new isolate from a hypersaline microbial mat. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:2543-2575.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 207. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5517.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mucispirillaceae Spring et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Calditerrivibrionaceae Spring et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Spring et al. (2022) assigned the genus Flexistipes Fiala et al. 2000 to this family. Publication: Spring S, Rohde M, Bunk B, Sproer C, Will SE, Neumann-Schaal M. New insights into the energy metabolism and taxonomy of Deferribacteres revealed by the characterization of a new isolate from a hypersaline microbial mat. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:2543-2575.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002. Publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Family I. Deferribacteraceae fam. 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. 465-471.
  • ❗ Flexistipitaceae 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).

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Record number: 30200