Name: Spirochaetes Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirochaetales, type order of the class; N.L. pl. n. Spirochaetes, the class of Spirochaetales

Type order: Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:293-295.

Nomenclatural status: validly published, rejected name

Taxonomic status: in need of a replacement

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Spirochaetia" Paster 2011	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the phylum "Spirochaetae" Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Schizomycetes Nägeli 1857 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Breed RS, Murray EG, Hitchens AP. THE OUTLINE CLASSIFICATION USED IN THE BERGEY MANUAL OF DETERMINATIVE BACTERIOLOGY. Bacteriol Rev 1944; 8:255-260.
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Spirochaetia" Paster 2011. Publication: Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Taxonomic outlines of the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 4 (The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes), Springer, New York, 2010, p. 21-24.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in the literature as: "Spriochaetes".
  • Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). 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.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Brachyspirales corrig. Gupta et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Brevinematales Gupta et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Leptospirales corrig. Gupta et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Spirochaetes" Garrity and Holt 2001

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