Name: Acidobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Acidobacterium, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Acidobacteria, the Acidobacteriales class (nominative plural of Acidobacterium)

Gender: neuter

Type order: Acidobacteriales Cavalier-Smith 2002

Valid publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:293-295.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: in need of a replacement

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Acidobacteriia" Thrash and Coates 2010	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Acidobacteriae" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subphylum "Geobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Bryobacter Kulichevskaya et al. 2010 to this class. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • The type order of this class has been placed in the class "Acidobacteriia" Thrash and Coates 2010. Publication: Thrash JC, Coates JD. Class I. Acidobacteriia Cavalier-Smith 2002, 12 VP emend. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 4 (The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes), Springer, New York, 2010, p. 727.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Acidbacteria"; "Acidobacttria"; "Acidsbacteria"; "Acintobacteria".
  • Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). Publication: Tindall BJ. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602.

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