Name: Kineosporiaceae Zhi et al. 2009

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ki.ne.o.spo.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Kineosporia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Kineosporiaceae, the Kineosporia family

Pronunciation, gender: ki-ne-o-spo-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Kineosporia Pagani and Parenti 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid 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.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Quadrisphaeraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Kästle-Silva et al. (2025) assigned this family to the order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Silva JK, Herve V, Mies US, Platt K, Brune A. A Novel Lineage of Endosymbiotic Actinomycetales: Genome Reduction and Acquisition of New Functions in Bifidobacteriaceae Associated With Termite Gut Flagellates. Environ Microbiol 2025; 27:e70010.
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this family to the suborder Kineosporiineae Zhi et al. 2009. 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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kineosproriaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Tamura et al. (2010), Ko and Lee (2017). 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 27; NBRC: 23; JCM: 22; KCTC: 11; IFO: 6; CCTCC: 5; CIP: 5; NRRL: 5; CECT: 4; ATCC: 4.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Angustibacter Tamura et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Kineococcus Yokota et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Kineosporia Pagani and Parenti 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudokineococcus Jurado et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Quadrisphaera Maszenan et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassiella Lee et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Kineosporiales Kämpfer 2015

Assigned by: Kämpfer P. Order IX. Kineosporiales 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. 561.

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