Name: Fusobacteriia Staley and Whitman 2012

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Fu.so.bac.te.ri’i.a. N.L. neut. n. Fusobacterium, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Fusobacteriia, class of the order Fusobacteriales

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Staley JT, Whitman WB. Class I. Fusobacteriia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 747.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Fusobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Fusobacteraeota" 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 "Fusobacteriota" 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.
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this class to the phylum "Fusobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471-563.
  • 🧒 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the genus Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. Publication: Staley JT, Whitman WB. Class I. Fusobacteriia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 747.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 53; CCUG: 41; ATCC: 37; JCM: 28; NCTC: 16; CIP: 12; MCCC: 4; CGMCC: 4; KCTC: 4; NCIMB: 3.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Fusobacteriales Staley and Whitman 2012 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. Publication: Oren A, Parte A, Garrity GM. Implementation of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes for the renaming of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4296-4298.
  • 🧍 In Validation List No. 143, the year of publication of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4 was erroneously cited as 2010. The correct year of publication should be 2011. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016.

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Fusobacteriales Staley and Whitman 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Fusobacteriota 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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