Name: "Thermotogia" Cavalier-Smith 2020

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Thermotogia, the Thermotogales class

Gender: neuter

Type order: Thermotogales Reysenbach 2002

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Togobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this class to the subphylum "Thermocalda" 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.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the genus Thermotoga Stetter and Huber 1986 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.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002. 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 authority of the taxon name (Cavalier Smith) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Cavalier Smith and Chao).

Parent taxon: Thermotogota Reysenbach 2021

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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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