Name: Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Type genus: Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995

Valid publication: Holmes DE, Nevin KP, Lovley DR. Comparison of 16S rRNA, nifD, recA, gyrB, rpoB and fusA genes within the family Geobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1591-1599.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:3-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • The family name Geobacteraceae is a N.L. fem. pl. n., not a N.L. neut. pl. n. as cited in the paper by Holmes et al. 2004. {2} Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004 has priority over Geobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Geoalkalibacter Zavarzina et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Geobacter Lovley et al. 1995	validly published	correct name
    Geomonas Xu et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Geothermobacter Kashefi et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Trichlorobacter De Wever et al. 2001	validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Desulfuromonadales corrig. Kuever et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. 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. 1.

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