Name: Geothermobacteraceae Waite et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Geothermobacter Kashefi 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
    Geopsychrobacteraceae 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.
  • Waite et al. (2020) assigned the genus Geothermobacter Kashefi 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.
  • The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Geobacteraceae Holmes et al. 2004. 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.
  • Geothermobacteraceae 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).

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