Name: Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: De.i.no.coc’ci. 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)

Pronunciation, gender: de-i-no-KOK-ki, masculine

Type genus: Deinococcus Brooks and Murray 1981

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 genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Hadobacteria 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 type genus 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 (or affected by an OCR error) 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: 54; KCTC: 50; NBRC: 45; ATCC: 27; LMG: 24; CGMCC: 22; NRRL: 18; CCTCC: 18; NCIMB: 12.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997 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 2nd 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. 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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