Class Betaproteobacteria
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006, class. nov.
Type order: ¤ Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006.
Etymology: Gr. n. beta, name of the second letter of Greek alphabet; Gr. or L. n. Proteus, Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes; N.L. n. bacter, a rod; suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Betaproteobacteria, a class of bacteria included in the phylum "Proteobacteria" and having 16S rRNA gene sequences related to those of the members of the order Spirillales.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 107. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1-6.
Effective publication: GARRITY (G.M.), BELL (J.A.) and LILBURN (T.): Class II. Betaproteobacteria class. nov. In: D.J. BRENNER, N.R. KRIEG, J.T. STALEY and G. M. GARRITY (editors), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 575.
Validation List no. 107 in IJSEM Online
→ Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017.
Reference: BODEN, R., HUTT, L. P. and RAE, A. W. 2017. Reclassification of Thiobacillus aquaesulis (Wood & Kelly, 1995) as Annwoodia aquaesulis gen. nov., comb. nov., transfer of Thiobacillus (Beijerinck, 1904) from the Hydrogenophilales to the Nitrosomonadales, proposal of Hydrogenophilalia class. nov. within the 'Proteobacteria', and four new families within the orders Nitrosomonadales and Rhodocyclales. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 1191-1205.
Original article.
