Name: Microtatobiotes Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. mikrotês, smallness; Gr. masc. n. biotos, life; N.L. fem. pl. n. Microtatobiotes, smallest living bacteria

Gender: feminine

Effective publication: Philip CB. Comments on the classification of the order Rickettsiales. Can J Microbiol 1956; 2:261-270.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: not in use

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this class to the division "Protophyta" Sachs 1874. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🧕 Parte et al. (2020) assigned this class to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🧒 Breed et al. (1957) assigned the order "Virales" to this class. Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🧒 Philip (1956) assigned the order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. Publication: Philip CB. Comments on the classification of the order Rickettsiales. Can J Microbiol 1956; 2:261-270.
  • 🧒 Philip (1956) assigned the order "Virales" to this class. Publication: Philip CB. Comments on the classification of the order Rickettsiales. Can J Microbiol 1956; 2:261-270.
  • 🧒 Philip (1962) assigned the order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. Publication: Philip CB. Appendix G. Summary of tickborne rickettsioses. Report 2nd Meeting FAOIE Expert Panel on Tick-borne Diseases of Livestock, Cairo. United Nations, Rome, 1962.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nicrotatobiotes".
  • 🧍 No type order designated. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.
  • 🧍 Rejected name (Opinion 128). No nomenclatural type designated; including viruses. Nomen dubium et ambiguum (Rule 56a). Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.
  • 🧍 Tindall (2014): "No identifiable type, not currently used as a class name; as applied by Philip (1956) the name encompasses the viruses and rickettsias.". 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.
  • 🧍 According to Rules 15, 22 and 27(3), the class Microtatobiotes is illegitimate because it was proposed without the designation of a nomenclatural type. Publication: Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ. Nomenclatural type of orders: corrections necessary according to Rules 15 and 21a of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision), and designation of appropriate nomenclatural types of classes and subclasses. Request for an opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:725-727.

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