Name: Opitutae Choo et al. 2007

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: O.pi.tu’tae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Opitutales, type order of the class; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ae, ending sometimes inaccurately used for class or phylum names; N.L. fem. pl. n. Opitutae, the class of the order Opitutales

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: o-pi-TU-ta͡e, feminine

Type genus: Opitutus Chin et al. 2001

Valid publication: Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1173-1174.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
    "Opitutia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Choo et al. (2007) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia". Publication: Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537. 🇰🇷
  • 🧕 Garcia-Lopez et al. (2019) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2010. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 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. 🇮🇱
  • 🧕 Yoon et al. (2010) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2010. Publication: Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Cerasicoccus maritimus sp. nov. and Cerasicoccus frondis sp. nov., two peptidoglycan-less marine verrucomicrobial species, and description of Verrucomicrobia phyl. nov., nom. rev. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2010; 56:213-222. 🇯🇵
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007. Publication: Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537. 🇰🇷
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Opitutate".
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Opitutales Choo et al. 2007 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. 🇮🇱

Parent taxon: Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 2021

Assigned by: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056. 🇮🇱

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