Name: Elusimicrobia Geissinger et al. 2010

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: E.lu’si.mi.cro’bi.a. N.L. neut. n. Elusimicrobium, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Elusimicrobia, class of the order Elusimicrobiales (nominative plural of Elusimicrobium)

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Elusimicrobium Geissinger et al. 2010

Effective publication: Geissinger O, Herlemann DP, Morschel E, Maier UG, Brune A. The ultramicrobacterium "Elusimicrobium minutum" gen. nov., sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the termite group 1 phylum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009; 75:2831-2840.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 132. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:469-472.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Elusimicrobiia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Elusimicrobaeota" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Elusimicrobiota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • 🧕 Geissinger et al. (2009) assigned this class to the phylum "Elusimicrobia" Geissinger et al. 2009. Publication: Geissinger O, Herlemann DP, Morschel E, Maier UG, Brune A. The ultramicrobacterium "Elusimicrobium minutum" gen. nov., sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the termite group 1 phylum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009; 75:2831-2840.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Elusimicrobiia" 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.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Elusimicrobiales Geissinger et al. 2010 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.
  • 🧍 This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Rule 8 of the 2022 revision of the ICNP does not require that the name of a class validly published before 1 January 2012 be formed from the stem of the name of the type genus of the type order of the class plus the ending ia. This class name is orthographically correct (nominative plural of a 2nd declension neuter noun). Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.
  • 🧍 The etymology of the class Elusimicrobia has been provided at the time of request for valid publication of the name. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 132. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:469-472.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Elusimicrobiales Geissinger et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Elusimicrobia, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Elusimicrobiota Geissinger et al. 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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