Name: Blastocatellia Pascual et al. 2016

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Blas.to.ca.tel’li.a. N.L. neut. pl. n. Blastocatellia, the Blastocatellales class

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Blastocatella Foesel et al. 2013

Effective publication: Pascual J, Wust PK, Geppert A, Foesel BU, Huber KJ, Overmann J. Novel isolates double the number of chemotrophic species and allow the first description of higher taxa in Acidobacteria subdivision 4. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:534-544.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 168. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1603-1606.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Acidobacteria". Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • Pascual et al. (2015) assigned this class to the phylum "Acidobacteria" Thrash and Coates 2010. Publication: Pascual J, Wust PK, Geppert A, Foesel BU, Huber KJ, Overmann J. Novel isolates double the number of chemotrophic species and allow the first description of higher taxa in Acidobacteria subdivision 4. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:534-544.
  • Pascual et al. (2015) assigned the genus Blastocatella Foesel et al. 2013 to this class. Publication: Pascual J, Wust PK, Geppert A, Foesel BU, Huber KJ, Overmann J. Novel isolates double the number of chemotrophic species and allow the first description of higher taxa in Acidobacteria subdivision 4. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:534-544.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 12; LMG: 10; CECT: 1; ICMP: 1.
  • Nomenclatural type changed from Blastocatellales Pascual et al. 2016 based on new Rule 22. Publication: Oren A. Emendation of Rules 8, 15, 22, 25a, 30(3)(b), 30(4), 34a, and Appendix 7 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6070.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Blastocatellales Pascual et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Blastocatellia, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Acidobacteriota Thrash and Coates 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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