Name: Teichobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Te.i.cho.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. neut. n. teîchos, wall; N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Teichobacteria, group of bacteria which encompass teichoic acid in their walls (not formed from a genus name)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: te-i-k^ho-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type order: Bacillales Prévot 1953 (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 under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Desulfuribacillia Sorokin et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Firmibacteria Murray 1988	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Alicyclobacillia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Bacillia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Izemoplasma" Zheng et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and not pro-validly published
    Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Izemoplasmatia" corrig. Zheng et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not pro-validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subdivision "Endobacteria" 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subphylum "Endobacteria". 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned this class to the subphylum "Endobacteria". Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the genus Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the genus Staphylococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the genus Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the genus Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class. 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 been placed in the class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010. Publication: Tindall BJ. When treated as heterotypic synonyms the names Caryophanaceae Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) and Caryophanales Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) have priority over the names Planococcaceae Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) and Bacillales Prevot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) and Bacillales Prevot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980), respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2187-2195. 🇩🇪
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010. Publication: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20. 🇧🇪
  • 🧍 Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). — Teichobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 was previously known as "Teichobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🧍 Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). Later homotypic synonym of Firmibacteria Murray 1988. 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. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Bacillota Gibbons and Murray 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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