Name: Xanthobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Xan.tho.bac.te.ra’ceae. N.L. masc. n. Xanthobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Xanthobacteraceae, the Xanthobacter family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Xanthobacter Wiegel et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 4 genera in the family. — Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 genus from the family.

• Notes:
  • Lee et al. (2005) assigned this family to the order Rhizobiales Kuykendall 2006. Publication: Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919.
  • Lin et al. (2015) assigned the genus Pseudolabrys Kämpfer et al. 2006 to this family. Publication: Lin SY, Hameed A, Young CC, Liu YC, Hsu YH, Chung WC, Young LS. Thalassocola ureilytica gen. nov., sp. nov., of the family Phyllobacteriaceae isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4100-4106.
  • Liu et al. (2014) assigned the genus Pseudoxanthobacter Arun et al. 2008 to this family. Publication: Liu XM, Chen K, Meng C, Zhang L, Zhu JC, Huang X, Li SP, Jiang JD. Pseudoxanthobacter liyangensis sp. nov., isolated from dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane-contaminated soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3390-3394.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980). 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 in some sources as: "Xanthtobacteraceae"; "Xantlzobacteraceae".
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 43; VKM: 24; ATCC: 21; JCM: 19; LMG: 14; NBRC: 12; NCIMB: 9; CIP: 8; CCUG: 7; KCTC: 6.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ancylobacter Raj 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Angulomicrobium Vasil'eva et al. 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aquabacter Irgens et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Azorhizobium Dreyfus et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Labrys Vasilyeva and Semenov 1985	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylorhabdus Doronina et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Starkeya Kelly et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xanthobacter Wiegel et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (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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