Name: Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Chlorobium, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Chlorobiales, the Chlorobium order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Chlorobiales" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this order to the class Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🧕 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this order to the subclass Anoxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • 🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the family "Chloroflexaceae" to this order. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • 🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the genus Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cblorobiales".
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2004. Publication: Imhoff JF, Caumette P. Recommended standards for the description of new species of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1415-1421.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 18; NBRC: 5; BCRC: 5; ATCC: 4; VKM: 2; CIP: 2; JCM: 1; KCTC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Thermochlorobacteraceae" corrig. Liu et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Thermochlorobacteriaceae" Liu et al. 2012	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Chlorobiia Garrity and Holt 2022

Assigned by: Bello S, Howard-Azzeh M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic Analyses and Molecular Signatures Elucidating the Evolutionary Relationships amongst the Chlorobia and Ignavibacteria Species: Robust Demarcation of Two Family-Level Clades within the Order Chlorobiales and Proposal for the Family Chloroherpetonaceae fam. nov. Microorganisms 2022; 10:0.

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