Name: Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Chlorobium, type genus of the type order of the class; L. fem. adj. suff. -ea, ending sometimes inaccurately used to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Chlorobea, the Chlorobium class (sic)

Gender: neuter

Type order: Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

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: Chlorobiia Garrity and Holt 2022

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Chlorobiia" corrig. Bello et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Chlorobiia" corrig. Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Chlorobiia" corrig. Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Chlorobia" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Chlorobia" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Chlorobia" Bello et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Chlorobiia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chlorobiia Garrity and Holt 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the division "Sphingobacteria" 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 (2006) assigned this class to the phylum "Sphingobacteria". Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • 🧕 Iino et al. (2010) assigned this class to the phylum "Chlorobi" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1376-1382.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the genus Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (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 Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (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.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Chlorobiia Garrity and Holt 2022. Publication: Bello S, Howard-Azzeh M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic Analyses and Molecular Signatures Elucidating the Evolutionary Relationships amongst the Chlorobia and Ignavibacteria Species: Robust Demarcation of Two Family-Level Clades within the Order Chlorobiales and Proposal for the Family Chloroherpetonaceae fam. nov. Microorganisms 2022; 10:0.
  • 🚋 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Chlorobiia Garrity and Holt 2022. Publication: Bello S, Howard-Azzeh M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic Analyses and Molecular Signatures Elucidating the Evolutionary Relationships amongst the Chlorobia and Ignavibacteria Species: Robust Demarcation of Two Family-Level Clades within the Order Chlorobiales and Proposal for the Family Chloroherpetonaceae fam. nov. Microorganisms 2022; 10:0.
  • 🧍 This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion, which discussed its formation. Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.
  • 🧍 Irregularly formed name, the expected name would be "Chlorobiia". Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). 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.

Parent taxon: Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021

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. — 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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