Name: Acidithiobacillia Williams and Kelly 2013

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Acidithiobacillus, type genus of the order Acidithiobacillales, the type order of the class; N.L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Acidithiobacillia, the class of the order Acidithiobacillales

Gender: neuter

Type order: Acidithiobacillales Garrity et al. 2005

Valid publication: Williams KP, Kelly DP. Proposal for a new class within the phylum Proteobacteria, Acidithiobacillia classis nov., with the type order Acidithiobacillales, and emended description of the class Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2901-2906.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3935-3936.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Williams and Kelly (2013) assigned this class to the phylum "Proteobacteria" Gray and Herwig 1996. Publication: Williams KP, Kelly DP. Proposal for a new class within the phylum Proteobacteria, Acidithiobacillia classis nov., with the type order Acidithiobacillales, and emended description of the class Gammaproteobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2901-2906.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order II. Acidithiobacillales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 60.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 12; ATCC: 8; JCM: 5; NCIMB: 2; CIP: 2; KCTC: 1; NBRC: 1.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acidithiobacillales Garrity et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadota Garrity 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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