Name: "Candidatus Melainabacteria" Soo et al. 2014

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.lai.na.bac.te.ria. Gr. n. Melaina, a nymph in Greek mythology, who presides over dark subterranean aspects; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; from Gr. neut. n. baktron, rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Melainabacteria, class of bacteria found in the dark

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subkingdom "Eoglycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧕 Oren et al. (2022) assigned this class to the phylum Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022. Publication: Oren A, Mares J, Rippka R. Validation of the names Cyanobacterium and Cyanobacterium stanieri, and proposal of Cyanobacteriota phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5528.
  • 🧕 Soo et al. (2014) assigned this class to the phylum "Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045.
  • 🧒 Soo et al. (2014) assigned the genus Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 to this class. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045.
  • 🧒 Soo et al. (2014) assigned the order "Candidatus Caenarcanales" corrig. Soo et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045.
  • 🧒 Soo et al. (2014) assigned the order "Candidatus Obscuribacterales" Soo et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045.
  • 🧒 Soo et al. (2017) assigned the order "Candidatus Gastranaerophilales" Di Rienzi et al. 2013 to this class. Publication: Soo RM, Hemp J, Parks DH, Fischer WW, Hugenholtz P. On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria. Science 2017; 355:1436-1440.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Melainabacter"; "Melainbacteria"; "Melainibacteria".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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