Etymology:
Gem.ma.ti.mo.na.det’es. N.L. fem. n.Gemmatimonas, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. fem. pl. n.Gemmatimonadetes, class of the genus Gemmatimonas (sic)
Valid publication:
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1703-1705.
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Gemmatimonadaeota" 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 "Gemmatimonadota" 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.
🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Gemmatimonadota Zhang et al. 2021.Publication:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
🧕 Zhang et al. (2003) assigned this class to the phylum "Gemmatimonadetes" Zhang et al. 2003.Publication:
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163.
🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Gemmatimonadia corrig. Zhang et al. 2003.Publication:
Zhang H, Sekiguchi Y, Hanada S, Hugenholtz P, Kim H, Kamagata Y, Nakamura K. Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1155-1163.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gammatimonadetes"; "Gematimonadetes"; "Gemmanimonadetes"; "Gemmatimonbacteria"; "Gemmatimondaetes"; "Gemmatimonodetes"; "Gemmatinadetes"; "Gemmatinomadetes"; "Gemmatiomadetes"; "Gemmatiomonadetes"; "Gennatimonadetes"; "Germmatimonadetes".
🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Gemmatimonadales Zhang et al. 2003 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.