Name: Vampirovibrionia Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Vam.pi.ro.vi.bri.o’ni.a. N.L. masc. n. Vampirovibrio, type genus of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Vampirovibrionia, class of the genus Vampirovibrio [incorrectly formed: genus should have been the type]

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: wam-pi-ro-wi-bri-O-ni-a, neuter

Type genus: Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Vampirovibrionophyceae corrig. Strunecký and Mareš 2023

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Vampirovibriophyceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Vampirovibrionophyceae corrig. Strunecký and Mareš 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the order "Candidatus Gastranaerophilales" Di Rienzi et al. 2013 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the order "Candidatus Caenarcanales" corrig. Soo et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the order "Candidatus Obscuribacterales" Soo et al. 2014 to this class. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Candidatus Melainabacteria" Soo et al. 2014. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Vampirivibrionia"; "Vampirovibriona".
  • 🧍 Later homotypic synonym of Vampirovibrionophyceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023. Publication: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿

Parent taxon: Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022

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, Mares J, Rippka R. Validation of the names Cyanobacterium and Cyanobacterium stanieri, and proposal of Cyanobacteriota phyl. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5528. 🇮🇱

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