Etymology:N.L. fem. n.Gordonia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff.-aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n.Gordoniaceae, the Gordonia family
Valid publication:
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Emendations:
Nouioui et al. 2018
Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32. Notes:
Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 genera in the family.
Notes:
Boone et al. (2001) assigned this family to the suborder Corynebacteriineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997.Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned this family to the order Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015.Publication:
Goodfellow M, Jones AL. Order V. Corynebacteriales ord. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology vol. 5, 2nd edn., Springer, New York, 2012, p. 235-243.
Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this family to the order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Skermania Chun et al. 1997 to this family.Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Nocardiaceae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Gordoniuceae"; "Gorgoniaceae".
The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.06515 (N = 17).
The authority of the taxon name (Rainey et al.) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Stackebrandt et al.).
The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 78; JCM: 65; NBRC: 41; CIP: 29; CCUG: 28; ATCC: 24; NRRL: 22; IFO: 19; NCIMB: 17; VKM: 16.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3 Total number of child taxa: 4
Assigned by:
Tindall BJ. On the status of the names Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015, Mycobacteriales Janke 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) and Mycobacteriales Cavalier-Smith 2002. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3310-3312.
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