Name: Spirosomaceae Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Spirosoma, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirosomaceae, the Spirosoma family (sic)

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Spirosoma Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Larkin JM, Borrall R. Spirosomaceae, a New Family to Contain the Genera Spirosoma Migula 1894, Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977, and Runella Larkin and Williams 1978. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:595-596.

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

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Spirosomataceae corrig. Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Flectobacillaceae Lu et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Leadbetterellaceae Lu et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Spirosomataceae corrig. Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Garcia-Lopez et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Garcia-Lopez et al. (2019) assigned this family to the order Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
  • 🧒 Garcia-Lopez et al. (2019) assigned the genus Spirosoma Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Flexibacteraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Joo ES, Lee JJ, Cha S, Jheong W, Seo T, Lim S, Jeong SW, Srinivasan S. Spirosoma pulveris sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from a dust sample collected at Chungnam province, South Korea. J Microbiol 2015; 53:750-755.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Spimsomaceae"; "Sprirosomaceae".
  • 🧍 Irregularly formed name. The expected name to be formed from Spirosoma would be "Spirosomataceae" because the genitive of sôma is sômatos (Latin somatis). See also the discussion in Silva (1980). Publication: Silva PC. Names of classes and families of living algae with special reference to their use in the Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht, 1980.

Parent taxon: Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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