Name: "Nitrospiria" Cavalier-Smith 2020

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.spi’ri.a. N.L. neut. pl. n. Nitrospiria, the Nitrospirales class

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Nitrospirales" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Nitrospiria" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Nitrospira" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Leptospirillia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🛺 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.
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Nitrospira" 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.
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Cavalier Smith) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Cavalier Smith and Chao).
  • 🧍 The distinct name Nitrospinia from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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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