Name: Dehalococcoidia Löffler et al. 2013

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: De.ha.lo.coc.co.i’di.a. N.L. masc. n. Dehalococcoides, type genus of the type order of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Dehalococcoidia, the Dehalococcoides class

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Dehalococcoides Löffler et al. 2013

Valid publication: Loffler FE, Yan J, Ritalahti KM, Adrian L, Edwards EA, Konstantinidis KT, Muller JA, Fullerton H, Zinder SH, Spormann AM. Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:625-635.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1581-1583.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Dehalococcoidetes" Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Dehalococcoidotia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧕 Loeffler et al. (2013) assigned this class to the phylum "Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Loffler FE, Yan J, Ritalahti KM, Adrian L, Edwards EA, Konstantinidis KT, Muller JA, Fullerton H, Zinder SH, Spormann AM. Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:625-635.
  • 🧒 Loeffler et al. (2013) assigned the genus Dehalococcoides Löffler et al. 2013 to this class. Publication: Loffler FE, Yan J, Ritalahti KM, Adrian L, Edwards EA, Konstantinidis KT, Muller JA, Fullerton H, Zinder SH, Spormann AM. Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:625-635.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Dehaloccoidia"; "Dehalococcidia".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 5; CGMCC: 2; ATCC: 2; VKM: 1; NRRL: 1; KCTC: 1.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Dehalococcoidales Löffler et al. 2013 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.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Dehalococcoidales Löffler et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chloroflexota Garrity and Holt 2021

Assigned by: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.

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