Name: Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
Etymology: Be.ta.pro.te.o.bac.te’ri.a Gr. n. beta, name of the second letter of Greek alphabet; Gr. masc. n. Prôteus, Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; Gr. fem. adj. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Betaproteobacteria, a class of bacteria included in the phylum Proteobacteria and having 16S rRNA gene sequences related to those of the members of the order Spirillales
Type order: Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
Effective publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class II. Betaproteobacteria 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. 575.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 107. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1-6.
Nomenclatural status: validly published
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 7
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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[Betaproteobacteria, not assigned to order] | artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis | |
Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006 | validly published | correct name |
"Ferritrophicales" Weiss et al. 2007 | not validly published | |
Neisseriales Tønjum 2006 | validly published | correct name |
Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006 | validly published | correct name |
"Procabacteriales" Garrity et al. 2003 | not validly published | |
Rhodocyclales Garrity et al. 2006 | validly published | correct name |
Parent taxon: "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005
Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class III. Gammaproteobacteria 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 B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
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