Name: Dethiobacteria Sorokin and Merkel 2025

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: De.thi.o.bac.te’ri.a. N.L. masc. n. Dethiobacter, type genus of the class Dethiobacterales; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Dethiobacteria, class of the genus Dethiobacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-t^hi-o-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type genus: Dethiobacter Sorokin et al. 2008

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Syntrophomonadia Chuvochina et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Thermacetogeniia" corrig. Voyron et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Thermacetogenia" Voyron et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    Syntrophomonadia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned this class to the phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the family Dethiobacteraceae Sorokin and Merkel 2025 to this class. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the family Dethiobacteraceae Sorokin and Merkel 2025 to this class. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-2. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the genus "Candidatus Contubernalis" Zhilina et al. 2005 to this class. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the genus Dethiobacter Sorokin et al. 2008 to this class. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the order Dethiobacterales Sorokin and Merkel 2025 to this class. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacteria class. nov. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1-3. 🇳🇱
  • 🧒 Sorokin and Merkel (2022) assigned the order Dethiobacterales Sorokin and Merkel 2025 to this class. Publication: Sorokin DY, Merkel AY. Dethiobacterales ord. nov. In: Trujillo ME, Dedysh S, DeVos P, Hedlund B, Kämpfer P, Rainey FA, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2022, p. 1. 🇳🇱
  • ❗ Dethiobacteria is the correct name instead if this class is regarded as a separate class (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another class whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Bacillota Gibbons and Murray 2021

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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