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 incorrectly used for class or phylum names; N.L. fem. pl. n. Opitutae, the class of the order Opitutales

Gender: feminine

Type order: Opitutales Choo et al. 2007

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: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Opitutia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Choo et al. (2007) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997. 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 order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Opitutia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. 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 in some sources as: "Opitutate".
  • The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03031 (N = 10).
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 14; KCTC: 10; JCM: 8; NBRC: 7; ATCC: 6; LMG: 4; MCCC: 3; NRRL: 3; BCRC: 3; NCIMB: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    [Opitutae, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Opitutales Choo et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Puniceicoccales Choo et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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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