Name: Streptococcaceae Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Streptococcus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Streptococcaceae, the Streptococcus family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Deibel RH, Seeley Jr HW. Genus I. Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884, 22. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 490-515.

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:
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Syntrophococcus Krumholz and Bryant 1986 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Oscillospira Chatton and Pérard 1913 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Acetoanaerobium Sleat et al. 1985 to this family. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Strepmcoccaceae"; "Streptococccaceae"; "Strevtococcaceae".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02455 (N = 1).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 163; CCUG: 163; JCM: 96; ATCC: 95; CIP: 92; NCTC: 73; NBRC: 31; NCIMB: 28; CECT: 18; NBIMCC: 15.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Floricoccus Chuah et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lactococcus Schleifer et al. 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lactovum Matthies et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Okadaella" Okada et al. 2003	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010

Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Order II. Lactobacillales ord. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 464.

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