Name: "Candidatus Mariprofundia" corrig. Emerson et al. 2007

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ma.ri.pro.fun’di.a. N.L. masc. n. Mariprofundus, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Mariprofundia, the Mariprofundus class

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Candidatus Mariprofundales" Emerson et al. 2007

Original publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667.

IJSEM list: Oren A. "Candidatus list no. 0." A plea for linguistic accuracy – also for Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1085-1094.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Correct name: Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Zetaproteobacteria" Emerson et al. 2007	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling
    "Mariprofundia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Caulobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Anoxyphotobacteria (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Alphabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Rhodobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Candidatus Zetaproteobacteria" Emerson et al. 2007. Publication: Makita H, Tanaka E, Mitsunobu S, Miyazaki M, Nunoura T, Uematsu K, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Shimamura S, Takai K. Mariprofundus micogutta sp. nov., a novel iron-oxidizing zetaproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field at the Bayonnaise knoll of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, and a description of Mariprofundales ord. nov. and Zetaproteobacteria classis nov. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:335-346.

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