Class Thermomicrobia
Name: Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002
Etymology: Ther.mo.mi.cro’bi.a N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermomicrobiales, type order of the class; Gr. fem. adj. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermomicrobia, the class of Thermomicrobiales
Type order: Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002
Effective publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Class I. Thermomicrobia class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 447-450.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Emendations:
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Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004
Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2049-2051.
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:551-554.
Notes:- Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 order in the class.
- In the paper by Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004, the class Thermomicrobia is erroneously cited as Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2001 (sic).
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Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004
Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2049-2051.
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Notes:
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Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Thermomicrobaeota" Oren et al. 2015.
Publication:
Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
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Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Thermomicrobiota" Whitman et al. 2018.
Publication:
Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
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Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Chloroflexotia" 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.
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Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt (2004) assigned this class to the phylum "Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001.
Publication:
Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2049-2051.
- The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
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In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 447-450".
Publication:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.
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Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Thermomicrobaeota" Oren et al. 2015.
Publication:
Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 3
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Sphaerobacterales Stackebrandt et al. 1997 validly published correct name Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002 validly published correct name [Thermomicrobia, not assigned to order] artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
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Parent taxon: "Thermomicrobia" Garrity and Holt 2001
Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Class I. Thermomicrobia class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 447-450.
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