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.
  • 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Melainabacter"; "Melainbacteria"; "Melainibacteria".
  • A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Caenarcanales" corrig. Soo et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Caenarcaniphilales" Soo et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Gastranaerophilales" Di Rienzi et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    [Melainabacteria, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022

Assigned by: 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.

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