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

Pronunciation, gender: ni-tro-SPI-ra, 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
    Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    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

• 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.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022. Publication: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrospiro"; "Nitsospira".
  • 📧 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". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Parent taxon: Nitrospirota Garrity and Holt 2021

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.

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