Name: Ignisphaeraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ig.ni.sphae.ra.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Ignisphaera, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Ignisphaeraceae, family of the genus Ignisphaera

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Ignisphaera Niederberger et al. 2006

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Ignicoccaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Ignisphaeraceae" Rinke et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Ignicoccaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Ignisphaera Niederberger et al. 2006 to this family. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983. 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.
  • ❗ Ignisphaeraceae 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: Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002

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. — Huber H, Stetter KO. Order II. Desulfurococcales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 179-197.

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Record number: 43565