Name: "Chlorobia" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Chlo.ro’bi.a N.L. neut. n. Chlorobium, genus of the class, changing ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Chlorobia, class of the genus Chlorobium

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Chlorobiales" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BXI. Chlorobi phy. 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. 601-623.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Correct name: Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Chlorobia" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published, rejected name
    "Chlorobiia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Chlorobi" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BXI. Chlorobi phy. 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. 601-623.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Chlorobea 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.
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	orphaned order

Parent taxon: "Chlorobi" Iino et al. 2010

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