The Pectobacteriaceae are a family of Gram-negative bacteria which largely consist of plant pathogens.

This family is a member of the order Enterobacterales in the class Gammaproteobacteria of the phylum Pseudomonadota.

Together, Pectobacteriaceae refers to a family whose nomenclatural type is the genus Pectobacterium.

The original assignment of species into the family Enterobacteriaceae was largely based on 16S rRNA genome sequence analyses, which is known to have low discriminatory power and the results of which changes depends on the algorithm and organism information used.

Despite this, the analyses still exhibited polyphyletic branching, indicating the presence of distinct subgroups within the family.