Name: Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: De.fer.ri.bac’te.res. N.L. masc. n. Deferribacter, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. masc. pl. n. Deferribacteres, the class of Deferribacterales (nominative plural of Deferribacter)

Gender: masculine

Type genus: Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997

Effective publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Class I. Deferribacteres class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Ferrobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    "Deferribacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Deferribacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Deferribacterota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Deferribacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BIX. Deferribacteres phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this class to the phylum "Deferribacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Class I. Deferribacteres class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned this class to the subphylum "Geobacteria". Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Deferribacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Deferribacteresthe"; "Deferrobacteres"; "Defferibacteres"; "Defferribacteres".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; ATCC: 5; JCM: 4; NBRC: 4; VKM: 1.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Deferribacterales Huber and Stetter 2002 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.
  • 🧍 This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Rule 8 of the 2022 revision of the ICNP does not require that the name of a class validly published before 1 January 2012 be formed from the stem of the name of the type genus of the type order of the class plus the ending ia. This class name is orthographically correct (nominative plural of a 3rd declension masculine noun). Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 465-471". Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Deferribacterales Huber and Stetter 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Geovibriales Cavalier-Smith 2002	validly published under the ICNP, rejected name	synonym

Parent taxon: Deferribacterota Garrity and Holt 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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