Family Thiobacillaceae

Name: Thiobacillaceae Boden et al. 2017

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Thi.o.ba.cil.la’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Thiobacillus, type genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thiobacillaceae, the Thiobacillus family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: t^hi-o-ba-kil-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid 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. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2495-2498.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Hydrogenophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Hydrogenophilaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 763. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Thiobacteriaceae" Orla-Jensen 1909. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Hydrogenophilaceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thiobacilliaceae".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 29; ATCC: 24; JCM: 13; NBRC: 12; CIP: 12; IFO: 7; NCIMB: 7; NCCB: 6; IAM: 5; VKM: 4.

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: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Annwoodia Boden et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parasulfuritortus Xie et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Sulfomonas]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
    Sulfuritortus Kojima et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980)	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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