Name: Nitrososphaeria Stieglmeier et al. 2014

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.sphae’ri.a. N.L. fem. n. Nitrososphaera, the type genus of the type order of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Nitrososphaeria, the class of the order Nitrososphaerales

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Nitrososphaera Stieglmeier et al. 2014

Valid publication: Stieglmeier M, Klingl A, Alves RJ, Rittmann SK, Melcher M, Leisch N, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2738-2752.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3607-3609.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Conexivisphaeria Kato et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Rinke et al. 2021 Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 orders in the class.
    • 🧍 As of 2023-02-16 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Nitrososphaeraeota" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Nitrososphaerota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • 🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Nitrososphaerota Brochier-Armanet et al. 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
  • 🧕 Stieglmeier et al. (2014) assigned this class to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Stieglmeier M, Klingl A, Alves RJ, Rittmann SK, Melcher M, Leisch N, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2738-2752.
  • 🧕 Stieglmeier et al. (2014) assigned this class to the phylum "Candidatus Thaumarchaeota" Brochier-Armanet et al. 2008. Publication: Stieglmeier M, Klingl A, Alves RJ, Rittmann SK, Melcher M, Leisch N, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2738-2752.
  • 🧒 Stieglmeier et al. (2014) assigned the genus Nitrososphaera Stieglmeier et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Stieglmeier M, Klingl A, Alves RJ, Rittmann SK, Melcher M, Leisch N, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2738-2752.
  • 🧒 Zou et al. (2020) assigned the order "Candidatus Nitrosocaldales" De La Torre et al. 2008 to this class. Publication: Zou D, Wan R, Han L, Xu MN, Liu Y, Liu H, Kao SJ, Li M. Genomic Characteristics of a Novel Species of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea from the Jiulong River Estuary. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrosphaeria".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; NCIMB: 11; JCM: 11; ATCC: 6; KCTC: 3; NBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Nitrososphaerales Stieglmeier et al. 2014 based on new Rule 22. Publication: Oren A. Emendation of Rules 8, 15, 22, 25a, 30(3)(b), 30(4), 34a, and Appendix 7 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6070.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Caldarchaeales" Rinke et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Cenarchaeales" DeLong and Preston 1996	not validly published	synonym
    "Cenarchaeales" Cavalier-Smith 2002	not validly published	synonym
    Conexivisphaerales Kato et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Methylarchaeales" Ou et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Nitrosomirales" Zheng et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Nitrosopumilales Qin et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Nitrosopumilales" Könneke et al. 2005	not validly published	synonym
    "Candidatus Nitrososphaerales" Tourna et al. 2011	not validly published	synonym
    Nitrososphaerales Stieglmeier et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrosotaleales Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Nitrosotaleales" Prosser and Nicol 2016	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Thermoproteota Garrity and Holt 2021

Assigned by: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.

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