Name: "Pedosphaerae" Brewer et al. 2016

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Pedosphaerae, the Pedosphaera class

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Pedosphaera" Kant et al. 2011

Original publication: Brewer TE, Handley KM, Carini P, Gilbert JA, Fierer N. Genome reduction in an abundant and ubiquitous soil bacterium 'Candidatus Udaeobacter copiosus'. Nat Microbiol 2016; 2:16198. 🇺🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Pedosphaerae" Tsitko et al. 2014

Parent taxon: Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 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. — 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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Record number: 378
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