Name: "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997

Category: Division

Proposed as: new division

Etymology: Ver.ru.co.mi.cro’bi.a. N.L. fem. pl. n. Verrucomicrobiales, type order of the phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Verrucomicrobia, the phylum of the order Verrucomicrobiales

Gender: neuter

Type class: Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998

Original 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 status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hedlund et al. (1997) assigned this division to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Hedlund et al. (1997) assigned the class Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998 to this division. 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type class of this division has alternatively been placed in the division "Planctobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1987) 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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Vereucomicrobia"; "Vermcomicrobia"; "Verrocomicrobia"; "Verrocumicrobia"; "Verruccomicrobia"; "Verrucomcirobia"; "Verrucomicro"; "Verrucomicrobiati"; "Verrucomicrobioa"; "Verrucromicrobia"; "Verrumicrobia"; "Verruomicrobia"; "Verucomicrobia".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Borel N, Horn M, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 20 March 2019, Seattle, WA, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3654-3656. 🇨🇭
  • 😵 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
  • 🧍 In Validation List No. 143, the year of publication of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4 was erroneously cited as 2010. The correct year of publication should be 2011. Publication: Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016. 🇩🇪

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