Name: Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Chlorobium, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Chlorobiales, the Chlorobium order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned order

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Chlorobiales" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the class Chlorobea 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this order to the class Chlorobea 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.
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this order to the subclass Anoxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the family "Chloroflexaceae" to this order. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Cblorobiales".
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2004. Publication: Imhoff JF, Caumette P. Recommended standards for the description of new species of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1415-1421.
  • Chlorobiales is the correct name if this order is regarded as a separate order (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another order whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

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
    Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Thermochlorobacteriaceae" Liu et al. 2012	not validly published

Parent taxon: "Chlorobia" Garrity and Holt 2001

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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Record number: 5016