Class Thermaerobacteria

Name: Thermaerobacteria Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category, proposed as: class, class. nov.

Etymology: Therm.a.e.ro.bac.te’ri.a. N.L. masc. n. Thermaerobacter, type genus of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermaerobacteria, class of the genus Thermaerobacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: t^herm-a-e-ro-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type genus: Thermaerobacter Takai et al. 1999

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this class to the phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Thermaerobacter Takai et al. 1999 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Thermaerobacteria" Sorokin et al. 2020.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 4; DSM: 4; ATCC: 3.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thermaerobacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacillota Gibbons and Murray 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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