Name: Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: O.pi.tu’ti.a. N.L. neut. pl. n. Opitutia, the Opitutales class

Gender: neuter

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: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Opitutae Choo et al. 2007	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling
    "Opitutia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the infraphylum "Opitutae" 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.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the genus Opitutus Chin et al. 2001 to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧒 Choo et al. (2007) assigned the genus Opitutus Chin et al. 2001 to this class. 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 15; KCTC: 14; JCM: 10; NBRC: 7; MCCC: 6; ATCC: 6; BCRC: 3; NRRL: 3; CIP: 2; NCIMB: 2.
  • 🧍 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.
  • 🧍 Spelling corrected in Opinion 128. Rule 8 of the 2022 revision of the ICNP does not require that the name of a class validly published before 1 January 2012 be formed from the stem of the name of the type genus of the type order of the class plus the ending ia. However, this class name used an incorrect plural ending and had to be orthographically corrected. Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.

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
    Opitutales Choo et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Opitutia, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    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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