Name: Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Leu.co.tri.cha.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Leucothrix, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Leucotrichaceae, the Leucothrix family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Leucothrix Örsted 1844 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Buchanan RE. Family III. Leucotrichaceae Buchanan, Fam. Nov. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 850-851.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Leucotrichaceae Boden and Scott 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Achromatiaceae Massart 1901 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Thiotrichaceae" Pringsheim 1949	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this family to the order Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • Boden and Scott (2018) assigned the genus Cocleimonas Tanaka et al. 2011 to this family. Publication: Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Leucothrix Örsted 1844 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Thiotrichaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 131.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Leucoirichaceae"; "Leucolrichaceae".
  • Leucotrichaceae is the correct name 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).
  • On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Amended Edition), the type genus of the Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957, is incorrectly cited as Leucothrix Oersted 1884 (sic). Publication: Euzéby JP. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and to the amended edition of the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:1271-1272.

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