Name: Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Thermoproteus, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. masc. pl. n. Thermoprotei, the class of Thermoproteales (nominative plural of Thermoproteus)

Gender: masculine

Type genus: Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982

Effective publication: Reysenbach A-L. Class I. Thermoprotei 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. 169-210.

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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Crenarchaeota Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    "Thermoprotea" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Thermoproteia" Oren et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Rinke et al. 2021 Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 7 orders in the class.
    • 🧍 As of 2023-02-16 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this class to the phylum "Crenarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum AI. Crenarchaeota phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 169-210.
  • 🧕 Luketa (2012) assigned this class to the kingdom "Crenarchaeida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • 🧒 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned the order Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021 to this class. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🧒 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned the order "Geoarchaeales" to this class. — 🧒 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned the order "Ignicoccales" to this class. — 🧒 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned the order "Marsarchaeales" to this class. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.
  • 🧒 Zayulina et al. (2021) assigned the order Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021 to this class. Publication: Zayulina KS, Elcheninov AG, Toshchakov SV, Kochetkova TV, Novikov AA, Blamey JM, Kublanov IV. Novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Infirmifilum lucidum gen. nov. sp. nov., reclassification of Thermofilum uzonense as Infirmifilum uzonense comb. nov. and assignment of the family Thermofilaceae to the order Thermofilales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126230.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 74; JCM: 70; ATCC: 28; NBRC: 26; IFO: 12; VKM: 9; CGMCC: 3; CIP: 3; KCTC: 2.
  • 🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Thermoproteales Zillig and Stetter 1982 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.
  • 🧍 This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Rule 8 of the 2022 revision of the ICNP does not require that the name of a class validly published before 1 January 2012 be formed from the stem of the name of the type genus of the type order of the class plus the ending ia. This class name is orthographically correct (nominative plural of a 2nd declension masculine noun). Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acidilobales Prokofeva et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fervidicoccales Perevalova et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Igneococcales" Burggraf et al. 1997	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Sulfolobales Stetter 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Thermofilales" Rinke et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thermoproteales Zillig and Stetter 1982	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoproteota 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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