Family Heliobacteriaceae

Name: Heliobacteriaceae Madigan and Asao 2010

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: He.li.o.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Heliobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Heliobacteriaceae, the Heliobacterium family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: he-li-o-bak-te-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Heliobacterium Gest and Favinger 1985

Valid publication: Madigan MT, Euzeby JP, Asao M. Proposal of Heliobacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1709-1710. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2261-2262.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hehobacteriaceae"; "Heliobacieriaceae".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Beer-Romero and Gest (1987), Madigan et al. (2010). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Madigan and Asao) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Madigan et al.).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 13; ATCC: 11; UNIQEM: 4; BG: 2; BR: 2; NCMA: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Heliobacillus Beer-Romero and Gest 1998	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Heliobacterium Gest and Favinger 1985	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Heliomicrobium Kyndt et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Heliophilum Ormerod et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Heliorestis Bryantseva et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gerritsen J, Fuentes S, Grievink W, van Niftrik L, Tindall BJ, Timmerman HM, Rijkers GT, Smidt H. Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1600-1616. 🇳🇱

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