Name: Tenuifilaceae Podosokorskaya et al. 2021

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Te.nu.i.fi.la’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Tenuifilum, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Tenuifilaceae, the Tenuifilum family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: te-nu-i-fi-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Tenuifilum Podosokorskaya et al. 2021

Effective publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Kochetkova TV, Novikov AA, Toshchakov SV, Elcheninov AG, Kublanov IV. Tenuifilum thalassicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderate thermophilic anaerobic bacterium from a Kunashir Island shallow hot spring representing a new family Tenuifilaceae fam. nov. in the class Bacteroidia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126126. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 197. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:1-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Podosokorskaya et al. (2025). 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: VKM: 3; DSM: 2; KCTC: 1; UQM: 1.

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
    Perlabentimonas Khomyakova et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tenuifilum Podosokorskaya et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacteroidales Krieg 2012

Assigned by: Podosokorskaya OA, Kochetkova TV, Novikov AA, Toshchakov SV, Elcheninov AG, Kublanov IV. Tenuifilum thalassicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderate thermophilic anaerobic bacterium from a Kunashir Island shallow hot spring representing a new family Tenuifilaceae fam. nov. in the class Bacteroidia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126126. 🇷🇺

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