Name: Vampirovibrionophyceae corrig. Strunecký and Mareš 2023

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Vam.pi.ro.vi.bri.o.no.phy’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Vampirovibrionophyceae, the Vampirovibrio class

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: wam-pi-ro-wi-bri-o-no-P^HY-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980

Valid 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. 🇨🇿

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Vampirovibriophyceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code])
    Vampirovibrionia Chuvochina et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this class to the phylum Cyanobacteria Garcia-Pichel et al. 2020. 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. 🇨🇿
  • 🚃 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🚃 The type genus of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Vampirovibrionia Chuvochina et al. 2024. 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Vampirovibrionaphyceae".
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Strunecký and Mareš) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Strunecky et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NCIMB: 1; ATCC: 1.
  • 🙂 Spelling correction conducted by LPSN on 2023-04-21.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Caenarcanales" corrig. Soo et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Caenarcaniphilales" Soo et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Gastranaerophilales" Di Rienzi et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Obscuribacterales" Soo et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    Vampirovibrionales Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022

Assigned by: 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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Record number: 407