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Class Verrucomicrobiae

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).


 

Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998, class. nov.
Type order: ¤ Verrucomicrobiales Ward-Rainey et al. 1996.
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiales, type order of the class; ending -ae; N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiae, the Verrucomicrobiales class.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 64. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 327-328.
Effective publication: HEDLUND (B.P.), GOSINK (J.J.) and STALEY (J.T.): Verrucomicrobia div. nov., a new division of the Bacteria containing three new species of Prosthecobacter. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 1997, 72, 29-38.
Validation List no. 64 in IJSEM Online - Effective publication Online

Note: In the paper by Hedlund et al. 1998, the authors propose also a description of Verrucomicrobia div. nov., an emendation of the order Verrucomicrobiales, and an emendation of the family Verrucomicrobiaceae. However, these changes have not been validly published.

Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998 emend. Yoon et al. 2008.
Type order: ¤ Verrucomicrobiales Ward-Rainey et al. 1996.
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiales, type order of the class; ending -ae; N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiae, the Verrucomicrobiales class.
Reference: YOON (J.), MATSUO (Y.), ADACHI (K.), NOZAWA (M.), MATSUDA (S.), KASAI (H.) and YOKOTA (A.): Description of Persicirhabdus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ishigakijimensis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ponti sp. nov., Roseibacillus persicicus sp. nov., Luteolibacter pohnpeiensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Luteolibacter algae sp. nov., six marine members of the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia', and emended descriptions of the class Verrucomicrobiae, the order Verrucomicrobiales and the family Verrucomicrobiaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 998-1007.
Original article in IJSEM Online

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