Etymology:
O.pi.tu’tae. N.L. fem. pl. n.Opitutales, type order of the class; L. fem. pl. n. suff.-ae, ending sometimes inaccurately used for class or phylum names; N.L. fem. pl. n.Opitutae, the class of the order Opitutales
Valid publication:
Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1173-1174.
corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
Notes:
🧕 Choo et al. (2007) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia".Publication:
Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537.
🧕 Garcia-Lopez et al. (2019) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2010.Publication:
Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 2021.Publication:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
🧕 Yoon et al. (2010) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2010.Publication:
Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Cerasicoccus maritimus sp. nov. and Cerasicoccus frondis sp. nov., two peptidoglycan-less marine verrucomicrobial species, and description of Verrucomicrobia phyl. nov., nom. rev. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2010; 56:213-222.
🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007.Publication:
Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537.
🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Opitutate".
🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Opitutales Choo et al. 2007 based on new Rule 22.Publication:
Oren A. Emendation of Rules 8, 15, 22, 25a, 30(3)(b), 30(4), 34a, and Appendix 7 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6070.