Name: "Spartobacteria" Sangwan et al. 2004

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Spar.to.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. masc. adj. spartos, sown, in relation to the Spartoi, the sown men of the Cadmus myth, who sprung from the soil; Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, a small rod; N.L. neut. pl. n. Spartobacteria, sown small rods

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Chthoniobacterales" Sangwan et al. 2004

Original publication: Sangwan P, Chen X, Hugenholtz P, Janssen PH. Chthoniobacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., the first pure-culture representative of subdivision two, Spartobacteria classis nov., of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:5875-5881. 🇦🇺

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Sangwan et al. (2004) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia". Publication: Sangwan P, Chen X, Hugenholtz P, Janssen PH. Chthoniobacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., the first pure-culture representative of subdivision two, Spartobacteria classis nov., of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:5875-5881. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Qiu et al. (2014) assigned the genus Terrimicrobium Qiu et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Qiu YL, Kuang XZ, Shi XS, Yuan XZ, Guo RB. Terrimicrobium sacchariphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium of the class 'Spartobacteria' in the phylum Verrucomicrobia, isolated from a rice paddy field. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1718-1723. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Sangwan et al. (2004) assigned the genus "Candidatus Xiphinematobacter" Vandekerckhove et al. 2000 to this class. Publication: Sangwan P, Chen X, Hugenholtz P, Janssen PH. Chthoniobacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., the first pure-culture representative of subdivision two, Spartobacteria classis nov., of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:5875-5881. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Sangwan et al. (2004) assigned the order "Chthoniobacterales" Sangwan et al. 2004 to this class. Publication: Sangwan P, Chen X, Hugenholtz P, Janssen PH. Chthoniobacter flavus gen. nov., sp. nov., the first pure-culture representative of subdivision two, Spartobacteria classis nov., of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:5875-5881. 🇦🇺
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Terrimicrobiia corrig. García-López et al. 2020. 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Spartobacter".

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