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Class Saprospiria
Name: Saprospiria Hahnke et al. 2018
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Saprospira, type genus of the type order of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Saprospiria, the class of the order Saprospirales
Type genus: Saprospira Gross 1911 (Approved Lists 1980)
Effective publication:
Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Corrigendum: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:304. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 182. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2130-2133.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Hahnke et al. (2018) assigned this class to the phylum "Bacteroidetes" Krieg et al. 2010.
Publication:
Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Corrigendum: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:304.
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🧒 Hahnke et al. (2018) assigned the genus Saprospira Gross 1911 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class.
Publication:
Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Corrigendum: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:304.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Saprospirae".
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 17; KCTC: 13; DSM: 10; NCIMB: 9; JCM: 8; ATCC: 8; CECT: 6; KACC: 6; MCCC: 4; LMG: 2.
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🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Saprospirales Hahnke et al. 2017 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.
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🧕 Hahnke et al. (2018) assigned this class to the phylum "Bacteroidetes" Krieg et al. 2010.
Publication:
Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Corrigendum: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:304.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Saprospirales Hahnke et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Bacteroidota Krieg et al. 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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