Name: Geochordaceae Karnachuk et al. 2025

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ge.o.chor.da’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Geochorda, a bacterial genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Geochordaceae, the family of Geochorda genus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ge-o-k^hor-DA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Geochorda Karnachuk et al. 2025

Effective publication: Karnachuk OV, Lukina AP, Avakyan MR, Kadnikov VV, Begmatov S, Beletsky AV, Vlasova KG, Novikov AA, Shcherbakova VA, Mardanov AV, et al. Novel thermophilic genera Geochorda gen. nov. and Carboxydochorda gen. nov. from the deep terrestrial subsurface reveal the ecophysiological diversity in the class Limnochordia. Frontiers in Microbiology 2024; 15:0. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 222. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6640.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Allogeochordaceae Kostovski and Oren 2026

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Allogeochordaceae Kostovski and Oren 2026	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Karnachuk et al. (2024) assigned this family to the order Limnochordales Watanabe et al. 2015. Publication: Karnachuk OV, Lukina AP, Avakyan MR, Kadnikov VV, Begmatov S, Beletsky AV, Vlasova KG, Novikov AA, Shcherbakova VA, Mardanov AV, et al. Novel thermophilic genera Geochorda gen. nov. and Carboxydochorda gen. nov. from the deep terrestrial subsurface reveal the ecophysiological diversity in the class Limnochordia. Frontiers in Microbiology 2024; 15:0. 🇷🇺
  • 🧒 Karnachuk et al. (2024) assigned the genus Carboxydichorda corrig. Karnachuk et al. 2025 to this family. Publication: Karnachuk OV, Lukina AP, Avakyan MR, Kadnikov VV, Begmatov S, Beletsky AV, Vlasova KG, Novikov AA, Shcherbakova VA, Mardanov AV, et al. Novel thermophilic genera Geochorda gen. nov. and Carboxydochorda gen. nov. from the deep terrestrial subsurface reveal the ecophysiological diversity in the class Limnochordia. Frontiers in Microbiology 2024; 15:0. 🇷🇺
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Allogeochordaceae Kostovski and Oren 2026.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Geochodaceae".

Parent taxon: Limnochordales Watanabe et al. 2015

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. — Kostovski M, Oren A. Proposal of Allogeochorda gen. nov., Allogeochorda subterranea comb. nov., Allostigmatella gen. nov. and four new combinations and Allosphingorhabdus gen. nov. and Allosphingorhabdus lutea comb. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate genus names Geochorda, Stigmatella and Alterisphingorhabdus and their species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7208. 🇮🇱

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