Name: Terrimicrobia García-López et al. 2020

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ter.ri.mi.cro’bi.a. N.L. neut. n. Terrimicrobium, 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. Terrimicrobia, the class of the order Terrimicrobiales (sic)

Gender: neuter

Type genus: Terrimicrobium Qiu et al. 2014

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Terrimicrobiia corrig. García-López et al. 2020

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Spartobacteria" Sangwan et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Terrimicrobiia corrig. García-López et al. 2020	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Garcia-Lopez et al. (2019) assigned this class to the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Yoon et al. 2010. 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.
  • 🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Spartobacteria" Sangwan et al. 2004. 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively 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.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Terrimicrobiales García-López et al. 2020 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.

Parent taxon: Verrucomicrobiota Hedlund 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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