Name: Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Gal.li.o.nel.la.ce’ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Gallionella, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Gallionellaceae, the Gallionella family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Gallionella Ehrenberg 1838 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Henrici AT, Johnson D. Studies of freshwater bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology 1935; 29:61-92.

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:
  • Boden et al. 2017 Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 4 genera in the family.
  • Kojima et al. 2021 Kojima H, Kanda M, Umezawa K, Fukui M. Sulfurimicrobium lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from lake water, and review of the family Sulfuricellaceae to show that it is not a later synonym of Gallionellaceae. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:317-323. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 34. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4816.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 genera in the family.
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 genera from the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boden et al. (2017) assigned this family to the order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1948) assigned this family to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1948) assigned this family to the suborder Caulobacterineae corrig. Breed et al. 1944 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this family to the order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order V. Nitrosomonadales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 863.
  • 🧒 Boden et al. (2017) assigned the genus Sulfuricella Kojima and Fukui 2010 to this family. Publication: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.
  • 🧒 Boden et al. (2017) assigned the genus Sulfuriferula Watanabe et al. 2015 to this family. Publication: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.
  • 🧒 Boden et al. (2017) assigned the genus Sulfurirhabdus Watanabe et al. 2016 to this family. Publication: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gallionallaceae"; "Oallioncllaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 4; DSM: 2; ATCC: 2; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ferrigenium Khalifa et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ferriphaselus Kato et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Ferrooxidibacter" corrig. Bethencourt et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Gallionella Ehrenberg 1838 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, conserved name	correct name
    "Candidatus Houarnoksidobacter" Bethencourt et al. 2020	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    Sideroxyarcus Kato et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sideroxydans" Emerson et al. 2007	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Spirillales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 551