Name: Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Thermofilum, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermofilaceae, the Thermofilum family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Thermofilum Zillig and Gierl 1983

Valid publication: Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1275-1276.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this family to the order Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🧕 Zayulina et al. (2021) assigned this family to the order Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021. Publication: Zayulina KS, Elcheninov AG, Toshchakov SV, Kochetkova TV, Novikov AA, Blamey JM, Kublanov IV. Novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Infirmifilum lucidum gen. nov. sp. nov., reclassification of Thermofilum uzonense as Infirmifilum uzonense comb. nov. and assignment of the family Thermofilaceae to the order Thermofilales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126230.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Themzofilaceae"; "Thermofilaceue"; "Thermoftlaceae"; "Thermojilaceae"; "Thermojlaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 5; JCM: 4; KCTC: 1; VKM: 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
    Infirmifilum Zayulina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermofilum Zillig and Gierl 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoproteales Zillig and Stetter 1982

Assigned by: Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660.

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Record number: 1447