Class Thermomicrobia
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).
Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002, class. nov.
Type order: ¤ Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002.
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermomicrobiales, type order of the class; suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermomicrobia, the class of Thermomicrobiales.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 85. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 685-690.
Effective publication: GARRITY (G.M.) and HOLT (J.G.): Class I. Thermomicrobia class. nov. In: D.R. BOONE, R.W. CASTENHOLZ and G.M. GARRITY (editors): Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 447.
Validation List no. 85 in IJSEM Online
Note: In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 447-450".
→ Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002 emend. Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004.
Type order: Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002.
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermomicrobiales, type order of the class; suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermomicrobia, the class of Thermomicrobiales.
Reference: HUGENHOLTZ (P.) and STACKEBRANDT (E.): Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 2049-2051.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: In the paper by Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004, the class Thermomicrobia is erroneously cited as Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2001 (sic).
