Name: Vampirovibrionaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Vam.pi.ro.vi.bri.o.na.ce’ae. N.L. masc. n. Vampirovibrio, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Vampirovibrionaceae, family of the genus Vampirovibrio

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Bdellovibrionaceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Bdellovibrionaceae 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. 1040-1041.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudobdellovibrionaceae Waite et al. 2022. Publication: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Pseudobdellovibrionaceae". Publication: Hahn MW, Schmidt J, Koll U, Rohde M, Verbarg S, Pitt A, Nakai R, Naganuma T, Lang E. Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2555-2568.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; NCIMB: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Vampirovibrionales Chuvochina et al. 2024

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

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