Name: Anoxyphotobacteria (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Gr. pref. an-, not, without; Gr. masc. adj. oxys, acid or sour and in combined words indicating oxygen; Gr. n. phos photos, light; Gr. neut. n. baktêrio, staff, cane; Gr. fem. adj. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Anoxyphotobacteria, light-requiring bacteria that do not produce oxygen

Gender: neuter

Type order: Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 25. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:220-222.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published
    "Caulobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published, illegitimate name
    Alphabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published, rejected name

• Notes:
  • The type order of this class has been placed in the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
  • Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). Publication: Parker CT, Tindall BJ, Garrity GM. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:S1-S111.
  • Tindall (2014): "This is the same type designated for the class Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978.". 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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