Name: "Dehalococcoides" Maymo-Gatell et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.ha.lo.coc.co.i’des. L. adj. suff. -oides, resembling; N.L. masc. n. Dehalococcoides, coccus-shaped dehalogenating organism

Gender: masculine (stem: Dehalococcoid-)

Type species: "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" Maymo-Gatell et al. 1997

Original publication: Maymo-Gatell X, Chien Y, Gossett JM, Zinder SH. Isolation of a bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetrachloroethene to ethene. Science 1997; 276:1568-1571.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Dehalococcoidetes" Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004. Publication: Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2049-2051.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the subphylum "Dehalococcoidotia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this genus to the class Chlorobacteria 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 a homonym of Dehalococcoides Löffler et al. 2013.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" Maymo-Gatell et al. 1997	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

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Record number: 39616