Name: Geopsychrobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Geo.psy.chro.bac.te.ra.ce’ae. N.L. masc. n. Geopsychrobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Geopsychrobacteraceae, the family of the genus Geopsychrobacter

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005

Valid publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4645.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Geobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Geothermobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Waite et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Desulfuromonadales corrig. Kuever et al. 2006. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🧒 Khomyakova et al. (2022) assigned the genus Pelovirga Khomyakova et al. 2023 to this family. Publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Kopitsyn DS, Slobodkin AI. Pelovirga terrestris gen. nov., sp. nov., anaerobic, alkaliphilic, fumarate-, arsenate-, Fe(III)- and sulfur-reducing bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126304.
  • 🧒 Waite et al. (2020) assigned the genus Desulfuromusa Liesack and Finster 1994 to this family. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🧒 Waite et al. (2020) assigned the genus Malonomonas Dehning and Schink 1990 to this family. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🧒 Waite et al. (2020) assigned the genus Geopsychrobacter Holmes et al. 2005 to this family. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🧒 Waite et al. (2020) assigned the genus Seleniibacterium Waite et al. 2020 to this family. Publication: Waite DW, Chuvochina M, Pelikan C, Parks DH, Yilmaz P, Wagner M, Loy A, Naganuma T, Nakai R, Whitman WB, et al. Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5972-6016.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004. Publication: Holmes DE, Nicoll JS, Bond DR, Lovley DR. Potential role of a novel psychrotolerant member of the family Geobacteraceae, Geopsychrobacter electrodiphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., in electricity production by a marine sediment fuel cell. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:6023-6030.
  • ❗ Geopsychrobacteraceae 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).

Parent taxon: Desulfuromonadales corrig. Kuever et al. 2006

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. — Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family II. Geobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1017.

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