Name: "Chromatiia" Cavalier-Smith 2020

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Chromatiia, the Chromatiales class

Gender: neuter

Type order: Chromatiales Imhoff 2005

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Rhodobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1987) Cavalier-Smith 1998. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the subclass "Neisseriidae" Cavalier-Smith 2020 to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the subclass "Acidithiobacillidae" to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • The type order of this class has been placed in the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Imhoff JF. Order I. Chromatiales ord. 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. 1-3.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Chromatina".
  • The authority of the taxon name (Cavalier Smith) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Cavalier Smith and Chao).

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