Name: Sporichthyaceae Rainey et al. 1997

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Spor.ich.thy.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Sporichthya, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Sporichthyaceae, the Sporichthya family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: spor-ik^h-t^hy-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Sporichthya Lechevalier et al. 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Zhi et al. 2009 Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. 🇨🇳 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this family to the suborder Frankiineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997. 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Sen et al. (2014) assigned this family to the order Frankiales Sen et al. 2014. Publication: Sen A, Daubin V, Abrouk D, Gifford I, Berry AM, Normand P. Phylogeny of the class Actinobacteria revisited in the light of complete genomes. The orders 'Frankiales' and Micrococcales should be split into coherent entities: proposal of Frankiales ord. nov., Geodermatophilales ord. nov., Acidothermales ord. nov. and Nakamurellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3821-3832. 🇫🇷
  • 🧕 Stackebrandt et al. (1997) assigned this family to the suborder Frankiineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this family to the suborder Frankiineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Lee et al. (2018) assigned the genus Epidermidibacterium Lee et al. 2018 to this family. Publication: Lee DG, Trujillo ME, Kang S, Nam JJ, Kim YJ. Epidermidibacterium keratini gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Sporichthyaceae, isolated from keratin epidermis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:745-750. 🇰🇷
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Rainey et al.) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Stackebrandt et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 3; DSM: 2; JCM: 2; IFO: 2; ATCC: 1; VKM: 1; NRRL: 1; KCTC: 1; CGMCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Complete authorship reads: Rainey, Ward-Rainey and Stackebrandt.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Longivirga Qu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sporichthya Lechevalier et al. 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sporichthyales Nouioui et al. 2018

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

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