Name: Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Deinococcus, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. masc. pl. n. Deinococci, the class of Deinococcales (nominative plural of Deinococcus)

Gender: masculine

Type order: Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997

Effective publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Class I. Deinococci 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. 395-403.

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
    Hadobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    "Thermia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Deinococcia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Deinococcaeota" 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 "Deinococcota" 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 "Deinococcus-Thermus" Weisburg et al. 1989. Publication: Weisburg WG, Giovannoni SJ, Woese CR. The Deinococcus-Thermus phylum and the effect of rRNA composition on phylogenetic tree construction. Syst Appl Microbiol 1989; 11:128-134.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Deinococcia" 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: "Deinococcoi".
  • 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: 95; JCM: 53; KCTC: 47; NBRC: 43; ATCC: 27; LMG: 24; CGMCC: 20; NRRL: 18; NCIMB: 12; CIP: 9.
  • This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. 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. 395-403". 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: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Deinococci, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Thermales Rainey and da Costa 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Trueperales García-López et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Deinococcota Weisburg et al. 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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