Name: Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiales, type order of the class; suff. -ae, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiae, the Verrucomicrobiales class

Gender: neuter

Type order: Verrucomicrobiales Ward-Rainey et al. 1996

Effective publication: Hedlund BP, Gosink JJ, Staley JT. Verrucomicrobia div. nov., a new division of the bacteria containing three new species of Prosthecobacter. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1997; 72:29-38.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 64. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:327-328.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Yoon et al. 2008 Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Adachi K, Nozawa M, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Description of Persicirhabdus sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ishigakijimensis gen. nov., sp. nov., Roseibacillus ponti sp. nov., Roseibacillus persicicus sp. nov., Luteolibacter pohnpeiensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Luteolibacter algae sp. nov., six marine members of the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia', and emended descriptions of the class Verrucomicrobiae, the order Verrucomicrobiales and the family Verrucomicrobiaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:998-1007. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1513-1514.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997. Publication: Hedlund BP, Gosink JJ, Staley JT. Verrucomicrobia div. nov., a new division of the bacteria containing three new species of Prosthecobacter. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1997; 72:29-38.
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Verrucomicrobaeota" 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 "Verrucomicrobiota" 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the phylum "Planctobacteria" 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Verrumicrobiae".
  • In the paper by Hedlund et al. 1998, the authors propose also a description of Verrucomicrobia div. nov., an emendation of the order Verrucomicrobiales, and an emendation of the family Verrucomicrobiaceae. However, these changes have not been validly published.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Verrucomicrobiales Ward-Rainey et al. 1996	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997

Assigned by: Hedlund BP, Gosink JJ, Staley JT. Verrucomicrobia div. nov., a new division of the bacteria containing three new species of Prosthecobacter. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1997; 72:29-38.

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