Name: Spirillaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. dim. n. Spirillum, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirillaceae, the Spirillum family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Spirillum Ehrenberg 1832 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Migula N. Ueber ein neues System der Bakterien. Arbeiten aus dem Bakteriologischen Institut der Technischen Hochschule zu Karlsruhe 1894; 1:235-238.

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Bergey et al. (1923) assigned this family to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Waksman SA. Genus III. Actinomyces Harz,. In: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1923, p. 339-371.
  • 🧕 Boden et al. (2017) assigned this family to the order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Boden R, Hutt LP, Rae AW. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1191-1205.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this family to the suborder Pseudomonadineae Breed et al. 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.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this family to the order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order V. Nitrosomonadales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 863.
  • 🧕 Winslow et al. (1920) assigned this family to the order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Final Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1920; 5:191-229.
  • 🧒 Bergey et al. (1923) assigned the genus Vibrio Pacini 1854 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Waksman SA. Genus III. Actinomyces Harz,. In: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1923, p. 339-371.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Selenomonas von Prowazek 1913 (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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Desulfovibrio Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Vibrio Pacini 1854 (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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Cellvibrio" 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.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Myconostoc" to this family. — 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the genus "Paraspirillum" 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.
  • 🧒 Delaporte (1964) assigned the genus "Sporospirillum" Delaporte 1964 to this family. Publication: Delaporte B. [COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LARGE SPORE-FORMING SPIRILLEAE: SPOROSPIRILLUM (SPIRILLUM) PRAECLARUM (COLLIN) N.G., SPOROSPIRILLUM GYRINI N. SP. AND SPOROSPIRILLUM BISPORUM N.SP]. Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris) 1964; 107:246-262.
  • 🧒 Winslow et al. (1920) assigned the genus Vibrio Pacini 1854 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Final Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1920; 5:191-229.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudanabaenaceae Anagnostidis and Komárek 1988. Publication: Komarek J, Golubic S. Guide to the Nomenclature and formal taxonomic treatment of oxyphototroph prokaryotes (Cyanoprokaryotes). Unknown Publisher, Unknown City, 1990.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Spfrillaceae"; "Spiriltaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; DSM: 1; VKM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Cellfalcicula" Winogradsky 1929	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Drepanospira" De Petschenko 1911	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Gastrospirillum" McNulty et al. 1989	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    [Renobacter]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    Spirillum Ehrenberg 1832 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Titanospirillum" Guerrero et al. 1999	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Spirillales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Prévot AR. Manuel de Classification et de Détermination des Bactéries Anaérobies, 1st ed. Masson, Paris, 1940.

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Record number: 1305