Name: Archaeobacteria Murray 1988

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ar.chae.o.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. masc. adj. archaîos, ancient; N.L. masc. adj. archaeus; N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Archaeobacteria, ancient bacteria (not formed from a genus name)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ar-k^ha͡e-o-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type order: Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

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 under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Methanobacteria Boone 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Methanobacteria Boone 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the division "Mendosicutes" Murray 1984. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
  • 🧕 Murray (1984) assigned this class to the division "Mendosicutes" Murray 1984. 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.
  • 🧕 Murray (1984) assigned this class to the phylum "Mendosicutes". 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.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Methanobacteria Boone 2002. Publication: Boone DR. Class I. Methanobacteria class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 213. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Methanothermea 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Archachbacteria"; "Archoebacteria". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Archaeobacterium".
  • 🧍 Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). The name "Archaebacteria" (sic) was previously given to a kingdom, "Archaebacteria" (sic) Woese and Fox 1977. 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧍 Rejected name (Opinion 128). Part of "misfitting megaclassification". Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 Tindall (2014): "The name of the class [Methanobacteria Boone 2002] is currently used in preference to the class name Archaea Murray 1988. Contravenes Rules 51b and 55 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (Lapage et al., 1992).". 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 The type order has been designated by J.G. Holt in a personal communication to the Associate Editor, IJSB. Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Methanobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2023

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6024. 🇩🇪

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