Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.20079

Name

Ruaniaceae Tang et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Ruaniales Salam et al. 2020

Members

genus	Ruania Gu et al. 2007 emend. Schumann et al. 2021
genus	Haloactinobacterium Tang et al. 2010
genus	Occultella Schumann et al. 2021

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Ruaniales Salam et al. 2020
family Ruaniaceae Tang et al. 2010

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the family Ruaniaceae Tang et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.20079.

Source File

10.1601/tx.20079.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2021.

References

Salam N, Jiao J-Y, Zhang X-T, Li W-J. Update on the classification of higher ranks in the phylum Actinobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1331-1355. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003920 [PubMed].
Tang S-K, Zhi X-Y, Wang Y, Wu J-Y, Lee J-C, Kim C-J, Lou K, Xu L-H, Li W-J. Haloactinobacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic actinobacterium, and proposal of Ruaniaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2113-2119. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.018440-0 [PubMed].
Schumann P, Kalensee F, Cao J, Criscuolo A, Clermont D, Köhler JM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Neumann-Schaal M, Tindall BJ, Pukall R. Reclassification of Haloactinobacterium glacieicola as Occultella glacieicola gen. nov., comb. nov., of Haloactinobacterium album as Ruania alba comb. nov, with an emended description of the genus Ruania, recognition that the genus names Haloactinobacterium and Ruania are heterotypic synonyms and description of Occultella aeris sp. nov., a halotolerant isolate from surface soil sampled at an ancient copper smelter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004769 [PubMed].