Name: "Candidatus Zetaproteobacteria" Emerson et al. 2007

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ze-ta-pro-te-o-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type order: "Candidatus Mariprofundales" Emerson et al. 2007

Effective publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Mariprofundia" corrig. Emerson et al. 2007

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Magnetococcia Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Zetaproteobacteria" Makita et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Mariprofundia" corrig. Emerson et al. 2007	corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Caulobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Mariprofundia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Anoxyphotobacteria (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Alphabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Emerson et al. (2007) assigned this class to the phylum "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Oren and Garrity (2021) assigned this class to the phylum Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056. 🇮🇱
  • 🧒 Makita et al. (2017) assigned the family "Mariprofundaceae" Emerson et al. 2007 to this class. Publication: Makita H, Tanaka E, Mitsunobu S, Miyazaki M, Nunoura T, Uematsu K, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Shimamura S, Takai K. Mariprofundus micogutta sp. nov., a novel iron-oxidizing zetaproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field at the Bayonnaise knoll of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, and a description of Mariprofundales ord. nov. and Zetaproteobacteria classis nov. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:335-346. 🇯🇵
  • 🧒 Makita et al. (2017) assigned the order "Candidatus Mariprofundales" Emerson et al. 2007 to this class. Publication: Makita H, Tanaka E, Mitsunobu S, Miyazaki M, Nunoura T, Uematsu K, Takaki Y, Nishi S, Shimamura S, Takai K. Mariprofundus micogutta sp. nov., a novel iron-oxidizing zetaproteobacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal field at the Bayonnaise knoll of the Izu-Ogasawara arc, and a description of Mariprofundales ord. nov. and Zetaproteobacteria classis nov. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:335-346. 🇯🇵
  • 🧒 Mori et al. (2017) assigned the genus "Ghiorsea" Mori et al. 2017 to this class. Publication: Mori JF, Scott JJ, Hager KW, Moyer CL, Kusel K, Emerson D. Physiological and ecological implications of an iron- or hydrogen-oxidizing member of the Zetaproteobacteria, Ghiorsea bivora, gen. nov., sp. nov. ISME J 2017; 11:2624-2636. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Candidatus Mariprofundia" corrig. Emerson et al. 2007. Publication: Emerson D, Rentz JA, Lilburn TG, Davis RE, Aldrich H, Chan C, Moyer CL. A novel lineage of proteobacteria involved in formation of marine Fe-oxidizing microbial mat communities. PLoS One 2007; 2:e667. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Candidatus Mariprofundia" corrig. Emerson et al. 2007. 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: "Zetaproteoabacteria"; "Zetaproteoobacteria"; "Zetaprotobacteria". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Zetaproteobacterium".
  • 🧍 See also Oren (2017) for the spelling correction. Publication: Oren A. "Candidatus list no. 0." A plea for linguistic accuracy – also for Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1085-1094.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Emerson et al., "Candidatus ζ-Proteobacteria" is also cited as "Zetaproteobacteria" class. nov. — 🧍 In the paper by Emerson et al., the class "Zetaproteobacteria" is also cited as "Candidatus ζ-Proteobacteria". Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 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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