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

Type genus: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Valid 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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• 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.
  • Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Chlorobi" Iino et al. 2010. Publication: Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1376-1382.
  • 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.

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	correct name
    "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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