Name: Acidithiobacillia Williams and Kelly 2013

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: A.ci.di.thi.o.ba.cil’li.a. N.L. masc. n. Acidithiobacillus, type genus of the order Acidithiobacillales, the type order of the class; 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 genus: Acidithiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000

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.
  • Williams and Kelly (2013) assigned the family Acidithiobacillaceae Garrity et al. 2005 to this class. 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.
  • Williams and Kelly (2013) assigned the family Thermithiobacillaceae Garrity et al. 2005 to this class. 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.
  • Williams and Kelly (2013) assigned the genus Acidithiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000 to this class. 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 genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Chromatiia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 14; ATCC: 9; JCM: 5; CIP: 2; NCIMB: 2; KCTC: 2; NBRC: 1.
  • Nomenclatural type changed from Acidithiobacillales Garrity et al. 2005 based on new Rule 22. Publication: Oren A. Emendation of Rules 8, 15, 22, 25a, 30(3)(b), 30(4), 34a, and Appendix 7 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6070.

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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