Name: Thermosulfidibacteria Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.sulfi.di.bac.te’ri.a. N.L. masc. n. Thermosulfidibacter, type genus of the order class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermosulfidibacteria, class of the order Thermosulfidibacterales

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Thermosulfidibacter Nunoura et al. 2008

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Aquificia corrig. Reysenbach 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Aquificae Reysenbach 2002	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    Desulfurobacteriia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Aquificia corrig. Reysenbach 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    "Aquificia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this class to the phylum Thermosulfidibacterota Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Thermosulfidibacter Nunoura et al. 2008 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the order Thermosulfidibacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Aquificia corrig. Reysenbach 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • ❗ Thermosulfidibacteria is the correct name instead if this class is regarded as a separate class (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another class whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

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