Family Sulfuricellaceae

Name: Sulfuricellaceae Watanabe et al. 2015

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Sul.fu.ri.cel.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Sulfuricella, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Sulfuricellaceae, the family of the genus Sulfuricella

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: sul-fu-ri-kel-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Sulfuricella Kojima and Fukui 2010

Valid publication: Watanabe T, Kojima H, Fukui M. Sulfuriferula multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, reclassification of 'Thiobacillus plumbophilus' as Sulfuriferula plumbophilus sp. nov., and description of Sulfuricellaceae fam. nov. and Sulfuricellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1504-1508. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2343-2344.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sulfuriferulaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Kojima et al. 2021 Kojima H, Kanda M, Umezawa K, Fukui M. Sulfurimicrobium lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from lake water, and review of the family Sulfuricellaceae to show that it is not a later synonym of Gallionellaceae. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:317-323. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 34. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4816.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 3 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Kojima et al. (2021) assigned this family to the order Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Kojima H, Kanda M, Umezawa K, Fukui M. Sulfurimicrobium lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulfur oxidizer isolated from lake water, and review of the family Sulfuricellaceae to show that it is not a later synonym of Gallionellaceae. Arch Microbiol 2021; 203:317-323. 🇯🇵
  • 🧕 Watanabe et al. (2015) assigned this family to the order Sulfuricellales Watanabe et al. 2015. Publication: Watanabe T, Kojima H, Fukui M. Sulfuriferula multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, reclassification of 'Thiobacillus plumbophilus' as Sulfuriferula plumbophilus sp. nov., and description of Sulfuricellaceae fam. nov. and Sulfuricellales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1504-1508. 🇯🇵
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980). 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Hydrogenophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sulfurellaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Watanabe et al. (2016), Kojima et al. (2021). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 8; NBRC: 7; BCRC: 1.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sulfuricella Kojima and Fukui 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfuriferula Watanabe et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurimicrobium Kojima et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfurirhabdus Watanabe et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spirillales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 2004