acetobacteraceae acetobacteraceae acetobacteraceae is a family of gram-negative bacteria, belonging to the order rhodospirillales, class alphaproteobacteria. two distinct clades are recognized. the acetic acid bacteria and a more heterogeneous group including acidophilic and phototrophic bacteria. the type genus is acetobacter. ten genera from acetobacteraceae make up the acetic acid bacteria. acetobacteraceae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodospirillales family: acetobacteraceae(ex henrici 1939) gillis and de ley 1980 genera see text. synonyms elioraeaceae habib et al. 2020 history acetobacteraceae was originally proposed as a family for acetobacter and gluconobacter based on rrna and dna–dna hybridization comparisons in 1980. genera accepted genera the following genera have been effectively and validly published: acetobacter beijerinck 1898 (approved lists 1980) acidibrevibacterium muhadesi et al. 2019 acidicaldus johnson et al. 2006 acidiphilium harrison 1981 acidisoma belova et al. 2009 acidisphaera hiraishi et al. 2000 acidocella kishimoto et al. 1996 acidomonas urakami et al. 1989 ameyamaea yukphan et al. 2010 asaia yamada et al. 2000 belnapia reddy et al. 2006 bombella li et al. 2015 caldovatus habib et al. 2017 commensalibacter roh et al. 2019 craurococcus saitoh et al. 1998 crenalkalicoccus ming et al. 2016 dankookia kim et al. 2016 elioraea albuquerque et al. 2008 endobacter ramírez-bahena et al. 2013 entomobacter guzman et al. 2021 gluconacetobacter corrig. yamada et al. 1998 gluconobacter asai 1935 (approved lists 1980) granulibacter greenberg et al. 2006 humitalea margesin and zhang 2013 komagataeibacter yamada et al. 2013 kozakia lisdiyanti et al. 2002 lichenicoccus pankratov et al. 2020 lichenicola noh et al. 2020 muricoccus kämpfer et al. 2003 neoasaia yukphan et al. 2006 neokomagataea yukphan et al. 2011 nguyenibacter vu et al. 2013 oecophyllibacter chua et al. 2021 paracraurococcus saitoh et al. 1998 plastoroseomonas rai et al. 2022 rhodopila imhoff et al. 1984 rhodovarius kämpfer et al. 2004 rhodovastum okamura et al. 2018 roseicella khan et al. 2019 roseococcus yurkov et al. 1994 roseomonas rihs et al. 1998 rubritepida alarico et al. 2002 saccharibacter jojima et al. 2004 siccirubricoccus yang et al. 2017 swaminathania loganathan and nair 2004 swingsia malimas et al. 2014 tanticharoenia yukphan et al. 2008 teichococcus kämpfer et al. 2003 provisional genera the following genera have been published, but not validated according to the bacteriological code: "acetomonas" leifson 1954 "granulobacter" beijerinck and van delden 1904 "komagatabacter" yamada et al. 2012 "parasaccharibacter" corby-harris et al. 2014 "sediminicoccus" qu et al. 2013