Phylum Coprothermobacterota
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Coprothermobacterota Pavan et al. 2018, phyl. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Coprothermobacteria Pavan et al. 2018.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Coprothermobacter, type genus of the type class of the phylum; L. suff. -ota, ending to denote phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Coprothermobacterota, the phylum of the class Coprothermobacteria.
Valid publication: PAVAN, M. E., PAVAN, E. E., GLAESER, S. P., ETCHEBEHERE, C., KÄMPFER, P., PETTINARI, M. J. and LÓPEZ, N. I. 2018. Proposal for a new classification of a deep branching bacterial phylogenetic lineage: transfer of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus and Coprothermobacter platensis to Coprothermobacteraceae fam. nov., within Coprothermobacterales ord. nov., Coprothermobacteria classis nov. and Coprothermobacterota phyl. nov. and emended description of the family Thermodesulfobiaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 68, 1627-1632.
Original article in IJSEM Online