Name: Frankiaceae Becking 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Frankia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Frankiaceae, the Frankia family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Frankia Brunchorst 1886 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Becking JH. Frankiaceae fam. nov. (Actinomycetales) with one new combination and six new species of the genus Frankia Brunchorst 1886, 174. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1970; 20:201-220.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Normand et al. 1996 Normand P, Orso S, Cournoyer B, Jeannin P, Chapelon C, Dawson J, Evtushenko L, Misra AK. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Frankia and related genera and emendation of the family Frankiaceae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1-9. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:627.
    Notes:
    • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
  • Stackebrandt et al. 1997 Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 genus from the family.
  • Zhi et al. 2009 Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this family to the suborder Frankineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt et al. (1997) assigned this family to the suborder Frankiineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this family to the suborder Frankiineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Jatrophihabitans Madhaiyan et al. 2013 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: "Franlciaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 28; CECT: 26; NRRL: 4.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Frankia Brunchorst 1886 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parafrankia Gtari 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Protofrankia Gtari 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Pseudofrankia Gtari 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Frankiales Sen et al. 2014

Assigned by: Sen A, Daubin V, Abrouk D, Gifford I, Berry AM, Normand P. Phylogeny of the class Actinobacteria revisited in the light of complete genomes. The orders 'Frankiales' and Micrococcales should be split into coherent entities: proposal of Frankiales ord. nov., Geodermatophilales ord. nov., Acidothermales ord. nov. and Nakamurellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3821-3832.

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