Name: Scotobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc. n. skotos, darkness; N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Scotobacteria, bacteria that do not require light for metabolism (not formed from a genus name)

Gender: neuter

Effective publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: in need of a replacement

• Notes:
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this class to the phylum "Gracilicutes" Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Scolobacteria".
  • No type order designated. Publication: Parker CT, Tindall BJ, Garrity GM. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:S1-S111.
  • This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.
  • Tindall (2014): "No identifiable type, not currently used as a class name; as applied by Gibbons and Murray (1978) the name encompasses those Gram-negative (i.e. Gram-stain-negative) prokaryotes that are not capable of growing by oxygenic or anoxygenic photosynthesis.". Publication: Tindall BJ. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602.
  • According to Rules 15, 22 and 27(3), the class Scotobacteria is illegitimate because it was proposed without the designation of a nomenclatural type. Publication: Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ. Nomenclatural type of orders: corrections necessary according to Rules 15 and 21a of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision), and designation of appropriate nomenclatural types of classes and subclasses. Request for an opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:725-727.

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