Name: Thiolineaceae Boden and Scott 2018

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Thi.o.li.ne.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Thiolinea, type genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thiolineaceae, the Thiolinea family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: t^hi-o-li-ne-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Thiolinea Boden and Scott 2018

Valid publication: Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3077-3079.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thiotrichaceae Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Thiofilaceae Boden and Scott 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Leucotrichaceae Boden and Scott 2018	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    "Thiotrichaceae" Pringsheim 1949	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boden and Scott (2018) assigned this family to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Boden and Scott (2018) assigned this family to the order Thiotrichales Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Boden and Scott (2018) assigned the genus Thiolinea Boden and Scott 2018 to this family. Publication: Boden R, Scott KM. Evaluation of the genus Thiothrix Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Aruga et al. 2002: reclassification of Thiothrix disciformis to Thiolinea disciformis gen. nov., comb. nov., and of Thiothrix flexilis to Thiofilum flexile gen. nov., comb nov., with emended description of Thiothrix. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2226-2239. 🇬🇧
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Leucotrichaceae Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thiolinaceae".
  • ❗ Thiolineaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Beggiatoales Buchanan 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Buchanan RE. Order VII. Beggiatoales Buchanan, Ordo Nov. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 837-853.

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Record number: 4808