Name: "Zetaproteobacteria" Makita et al. 2017

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Ze.ta.pro.te.o.bac.te.ri.a. Gr. neut. n. zêta, name of sixth letter of Greek alphabet (indeclinable); N.L. masc. n. Mariprofundus, type genus of the family (Emerson et al. 2007); N.L. fem. pl. n. Mariprofundaceae, the type family (sic) of the type order of the class (Moreira et al. 2014); N.L. neut. pl. n. Zetaproteobacteria, the class of the order Mariprofundales (sic) (name not formed from name of nomenclatural type)

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Mariprofundales" Makita et al. 2017

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Zetaproteobacteria" Emerson et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Mariprofundia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Zetaproteoabacteria".
  • This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Zetaproteobacterium".
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; DSM: 2; NCMA: 1; KCTC: 1; ATCC: 1.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Mariprofundales Hördt et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Zetaproteobacteria, not assigned to order]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021

Assigned by: 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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