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. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Leucotrichaceae, the Leucothrix family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: le͡u-ko-tri-K^HA-ke-a͡e, 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: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Thiolineaceae Boden and Scott 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Thiofilaceae Boden and Scott 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Leucotrichaceae Boden and Scott 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    "Thiotrichaceae" Pringsheim 1949	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boden and Scott (2018) assigned this family to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively 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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Leucoirichaceae"; "Leucolrichaceae".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01938 (N = 15).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 13; JCM: 6; ATCC: 5; VKM: 5; KCTC: 2; UQM: 2; KMM: 1; NBRC: 1; MCCC: 1; KACC: 1.
  • 🧍 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cocleimonas Tanaka et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Leucothrix Örsted 1844 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiobacterium (ex Janke 1924) La Riviere and Kuenen 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Thiocaldithrix" Ravin et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    Thiofilum Boden and Scott 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiolinea Boden and Scott 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiospira Visloukh 1914 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Buchanan RE. Order VII. Beggiatoales Buchanan, Ordo 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. 837-853.

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