Etymology:
Ther.mo.to’gae. N.L. fem. n.Thermotoga, type genus of the type order of the class; N.L. fem. pl. n.Thermotogae, the class of Thermotogales (nominative plural of Thermotoga)
Effective publication:
Reysenbach A-L. Class I. Thermotogae 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. 369-387.
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
homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
Emendations:
Bhandari and Gupta 2014
Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168.
Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 20. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2191-2192. Notes:
⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the class. — ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 3 orders in the class.
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Thermotogaeota" 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.
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Thermotogota" 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.
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this class to the phylum "Thermotogae" Reysenbach 2001.Publication:
Reysenbach A-L. Class I. Thermotogae 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. 369-387.
🧒 Bhandari and Gupta (2014) assigned the genus Mesoaciditoga Reysenbach et al. 2013 to this class.Publication:
Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168.
🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Togobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Thermotogia" 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.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thermatogae"; "Thermotcgae".
📧 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: 60; JCM: 23; ATCC: 14; NBRC: 13; VKM: 3; CIP: 3; MCCC: 2; KCTC: 2; CCUG: 1; LMG: 1.
🧍 Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002 might have been considered as a later homotypic synonym of Togobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002. However, Togobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is not in accordance with the rules of the ICNP. — In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 369-387".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.
🧍 Nomenclatural type changed from Thermotogales Reysenbach 2002 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 1st declension feminine 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: 4 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4 Total number of child taxa: 4