Name: Halomebacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; me-, common scientific abbreviation for methane; N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Halomebacteria, a class which comprises both halophiles and somewhat halophilic methanogen (not formed from a genus name)

Gender: neuter

Type order: Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989

Valid 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.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:293-295.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halobacteria Grant et al. 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Halobacteria Grant et al. 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the superclass "Neobacteria" 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Methanosarcinales Boone et al. 2002 to this class. 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 order of this class has been placed in the class Halobacteria Grant et al. 2002. Publication: Grant WD, Kamekura M, McGenity TJ, Ventosa A. Class III. Halobacteria class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 294.
  • Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). Publication: Tindall BJ. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602.
  • 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.
  • Halomebacteria was previously known as "Halomebacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1986. — Halomebacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is an earlier homotypic synonym of Halobacteria Grant et al. 2002. Publication: Grant WD, Kamekura M, McGenity TJ, Ventosa A. Class III. Halobacteria class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 294.

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