Etymology:
De.fer.ri.bac’te.res. N.L. fem. pl. n.Deferribacterales, type order of the class, dropping ending to denote a class; N.L. masc. pl. n.Deferribacteres, the class of Deferribacterales
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
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" Cavalier-Smith 2002.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
The type order 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 in some sources as: "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: 10; ATCC: 5; NBRC: 3; JCM: 2.
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: 1 Total number of child taxa: 1