Name: "Nitrospira" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.spi’ra. L. neut. n. nitrum, nitrate; Gr. fem. n. speîra, a coil, spiral; N.L. fem. n. Nitrospira, nitrate spiral

Gender: feminine

Type order: "Nitrospirales" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BVIII. Nitrospirae phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 451-464.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Leptospirillia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Nitrospiria" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Nitrospiria" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this class to the phylum "Nitrospirae" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BVIII. Nitrospirae phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 451-464.
  • 🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Nitrospirota Garrity and Holt 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Thermodesulfovibrio Henry et al. 1994 to this class. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BVIII. Nitrospirae phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 451-464.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the order "Nitrospirales" Garrity and Holt 2001 to this class. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BVIII. Nitrospirae phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 451-464.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrospiro".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".

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