Name: Oligoflexia Nakai et al. 2014

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Oligoflexus, type genus of the type order of the class; L. fem. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Oligoflexia, the class of the order Oligoflexales

Type order: Oligoflexales Nakai et al. 2014

Valid publication: Nakai R, Nishijima M, Tazato N, Handa Y, Karray F, Sayadi S, Isoda H, Naganuma T. Oligoflexus tunisiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, filamentous bacterium of a novel proteobacterial lineage, and description of Oligoflexaceae fam. nov., Oligoflexales ord. nov. and Oligoflexia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3353-3359.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Hahn et al. 2017 Hahn MW, Schmidt J, Koll U, Rohde M, Verbarg S, Pitt A, Nakai R, Naganuma T, Lang E. Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2555-2568. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4294-4297.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 3 orders in the class.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Bacteriovoracales Hahn et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Bdellovibrionales Garrity et al. 2006	validly published	correct name
    Oligoflexales Nakai et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Silvanigrellales Hahn et al. 2017	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Nakai R, Nishijima M, Tazato N, Handa Y, Karray F, Sayadi S, Isoda H, Naganuma T. Oligoflexus tunisiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-negative, aerobic, filamentous bacterium of a novel proteobacterial lineage, and description of Oligoflexaceae fam. nov., Oligoflexales ord. nov. and Oligoflexia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3353-3359.

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