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Family Symbiobacteriaceae
Name: Symbiobacteriaceae Shiratori-Takano et al. 2014
Etymology: Sym.bi’o.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Symbiobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Symbiobacteriaceae, the Symbiobacterium family
Type genus: Symbiobacterium Ohno et al. 2000
Valid publication:
Shiratori-Takano H, Akita K, Yamada K, Itoh T, Sugihara T, Beppu T, Ueda K. Description of Symbiobacterium ostreiconchae sp. nov., Symbiobacterium turbinis sp. nov. and Symbiobacterium terraclitae sp. nov., isolated from shellfish, emended description of the genus Symbiobacterium and proposal of Symbiobacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3375-3383. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:5-6.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Symbiobacteriales Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
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🧕 Shiratori-Takano et al. (2014) assigned this family to the order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980).
Publication:
Shiratori-Takano H, Akita K, Yamada K, Itoh T, Sugihara T, Beppu T, Ueda K. Description of Symbiobacterium ostreiconchae sp. nov., Symbiobacterium turbinis sp. nov. and Symbiobacterium terraclitae sp. nov., isolated from shellfish, emended description of the genus Symbiobacterium and proposal of Symbiobacteriaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3375-3383.
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🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the genus Thermaerobacter Takai et al. 1999 to this family.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.08696 (N = 4).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 6; KCTC: 5; JCM: 4.
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Symbiobacteriales Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
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: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Symbiobacterium Ohno et al. 2000 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Tindall BJ. The names Hungateiclostridium Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium thermocellum (Viljoen et al. 1926) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium cellulolyticum (Patel et al. 1980) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium aldrichii (Yang et al. 1990) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium alkalicellulosi (Zhilina et al. 2006) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium clariflavum (Shiratori et al. 2009) Zhang et al. 2018, Hungateiclostridium straminisolvens (Kato et al. 2004) Zhang et al. 2018 and Hungateiclostridium saccincola (Koeck et al. 2016) Zhang et al. 2018 contravene Rule 51b of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and require replacement names in the genus Acetivibrio Patel et al. 1980. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3927-3932.
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Record number: 1984
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