Name: Thalassospiraceae Hördt et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Tha.las.so.spi.ra’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Thalassospira, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thalassospiraceae, the Thalassospira family

Pronunciation, gender: t^ha-las-so-spi-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Thalassospira López-López et al. 2002

Effective publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 194. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4043-4049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Magnetovibrionaceae Koziaeva et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Magnetospiraceae Koziaeva et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). 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: "Thalassopiraceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Bazylinski et al. (2013). 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: JCM: 9; DSM: 8; ATCC: 3; CGMCC: 3; CECT: 3; MCCC: 3; KCTC: 2; LMG: 2; KMM: 1; VKM: 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
    Magnetospira Williams et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Magnetovibrio Bazylinski et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thalassospira López-López et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Varunaivibrio Patwardhan and Vetriani 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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Record number: 11033