Class Thermoflexia

Name: Thermoflexia Dodsworth et al. 2014

Category, proposed as: class, class. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.fle’xi.a. N.L. masc. n. Thermoflexus, type genus of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermoflexia, the class of the order Thermoflexales

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: t^her-mo-FLE-xi-a, neuter

Type genus: Thermoflexus Dodsworth et al. 2014

Valid publication: Dodsworth JA, Gevorkian J, Despujos F, Cole JK, Murugapiran SK, Ming H, Li WJ, Zhang G, Dohnalkova A, Hedlund BP. Thermoflexus hugenholtzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, filamentous bacterium representing a novel class in the Chloroflexi, Thermoflexia classis nov., and description of Thermoflexaceae fam. nov. and Thermoflexales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2119-2127. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3923-3925.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Cavalier-Smith 2020 Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 genera in the class. — ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 orders in the class.
    • 🧍 As of 2020-11-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Caldilineotia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Dodsworth et al. (2014) assigned this class to the phylum "Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Dodsworth JA, Gevorkian J, Despujos F, Cole JK, Murugapiran SK, Ming H, Li WJ, Zhang G, Dohnalkova A, Hedlund BP. Thermoflexus hugenholtzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, filamentous bacterium representing a novel class in the Chloroflexi, Thermoflexia classis nov., and description of Thermoflexaceae fam. nov. and Thermoflexales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2119-2127. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the genus Ardenticatena Kawaichi et al. 2013 to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the genus Thermoflexus Dodsworth et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the order Ardenticatenales Kawaichi et al. 2013 to this class. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Dodsworth et al. (2014) assigned the genus Thermoflexus Dodsworth et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Dodsworth JA, Gevorkian J, Despujos F, Cole JK, Murugapiran SK, Ming H, Li WJ, Zhang G, Dohnalkova A, Hedlund BP. Thermoflexus hugenholtzii gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, filamentous bacterium representing a novel class in the Chloroflexi, Thermoflexia classis nov., and description of Thermoflexaceae fam. nov. and Thermoflexales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2119-2127. 🇺🇸
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCTCC: 1; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Thermoflexales Dodsworth et al. 2014 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. 🇮🇱

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
    Thermoflexales Dodsworth et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chloroflexota Garrity and Holt 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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