Name: Aquificae Reysenbach 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.fi’cae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Aquificales, type order of the class, dropping the ending to denote a class; N.L. fem. pl. n. Aquificae, the class of Aquificales (sic)

Gender: feminine

Type order: Aquificales Reysenbach 2002

Effective publication: Reysenbach A-L. Class I. Aquificae class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 359-367.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    "Aquificia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Gupta and Lali 2013 Gupta RS, Lali R. Molecular signatures for the phylum Aquificae and its different clades: proposal for division of the phylum Aquificae into the emended order Aquificales, containing the families Aquificaceae and Hydrogenothermaceae, and a new order Desulfurobacteriales ord. nov., containing the family Desulfurobacteriaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:349-368. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 19. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:8-10.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 order in the class.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Aquificaeota" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Aquificota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • Gupta and Lali (2013) assigned this class to the phylum "Aquificae" Reysenbach 2001. Publication: Gupta RS, Lali R. Molecular signatures for the phylum Aquificae and its different clades: proposal for division of the phylum Aquificae into the emended order Aquificales, containing the families Aquificaceae and Hydrogenothermaceae, and a new order Desulfurobacteriales ord. nov., containing the family Desulfurobacteriaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:349-368.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Aquijicae".
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 33; JCM: 26; ATCC: 6; NBRC: 2; MCCC: 1; IFO: 1.
  • Aquificae Reysenbach 2002 might have been considered as a later homotypic synonym of Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002. However, Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is not in accordance with the rules of the ICNP. — In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 359-367". Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aquificales Reysenbach 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfurobacteriales Gupta and Lali 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Aquificota Reysenbach 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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