Name: Arabobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. arabo-, combining form of arabic; Gr. neut. n. baktêria, staff, cane; N.L. neut. n. 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 under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997

• Synonyms:

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

• 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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