Name: Sediminispirochaetaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Se.di.mi.ni.spi.ro.chae.ta.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Sediminispirochaeta, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Sediminispirochaetaceae, family of the genus Sediminispirochaeta

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Sediminispirochaeta Shivani et al. 2016

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: synonym

Correct name: Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Alkalispirochaetaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Marispirochaetaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Salinispiraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Pillotinaceae" Margulis and Hinkle 1992	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Sediminispirochaeta Shivani et al. 2016 to this family. 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.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Shivani Y, Subhash Y, Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Description of 'Candidatus Marispirochaeta associata' and reclassification of Spirochaeta bajacaliforniensis, Spirochaeta smaragdinae and Spirochaeta sinaica to a new genus Sediminispirochaeta gen. nov. as Sediminispirochaeta bajacaliforniensis comb. nov., Sediminispirochaeta smaragdinae comb. nov. and Sediminispirochaeta sinaica comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5485-5492.
  • ❗ Sediminispirochaetaceae 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).

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Record number: 43605