Name: Arabobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. arabo-, combining form of arabic; Gr. neut. n. baktêrio, staff, cane; Gr. fem. adj. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Arabobacteria, a group of bacteria which, unlike other bacteria, always contain arabinose in their cells or walls (arabinose was originally isolated from gum arabic)

Gender: neuter

Type order: Mycobacteriales 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, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997	heterotypic synonym, validly published, illegitimate name
    Actinomycetia (Stackebrandt et al. 1997) Salam et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, validly published
    Arthrobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published, rejected name
    Streptomycetes Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published, rejected name
    Actinomycetes Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subphylum "Actinobacteria" 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Mycobacteriales Janke 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Actinoplanales Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this class. 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.
  • Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602), see Tindall (2014). 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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