Name: Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermomicrobiales, type order of the class; L. fem. 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

• Emendations:
  • 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.
    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).

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this class to the phylum "Thermomicrobia" Garrity and Holt 2001. 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.
  • In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 447-450".

Subdivision:

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sphaerobacterales Stackebrandt et al. 1997	validly published	correct name
    Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001

Assigned by: 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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