Family Marinithermaceae

Name: Marinithermaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.ni.ther.ma’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Marinithermus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Marinithermaceae, Marinithermus family of the genus Marinithermus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ma-ri-ni-t^her-MA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Marinithermus Sako et al. 2003

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: Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Marinithermus Sako et al. 2003 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Oceanithermus Miroshnichenko et al. 2003 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 Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002. Publication: Miroshnichenko ML, L'Haridon S, Jeanthon C, Antipov AN, Kostrikina NA, Tindall BJ, Schumann P, Spring S, Stackebrandt E, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Oceanithermus profundus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, facultatively chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:747-752. 🇷🇺
  • ❗ Marinithermaceae 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: Thermales Rainey and da Costa 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. — Rainey FA, da Costa MS. Order II. Thermales 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. 403-420. 🇺🇸

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