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
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
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