Name: Deferribacterales Huber and Stetter 2002

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: De.fer.ri.bac.te.ra’les. N.L. masc. n. Deferribacter, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Deferribacterales, the Deferribacter order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-fer-ri-bak-te-RA-les, feminine

Type genus: Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997

Effective publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Order I. Deferribacterales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Geovibriales Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Deferribacteria" 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 and Chao (2020) assigned this order to the class "Deferribacteria" 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Deferribacter Greene et al. 1997 to this order. Publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Order I. Deferribacterales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Synergistes Allison et al. 1993 to this order. Publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Order I. Deferribacterales ord. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Caldithrix Miroshnichenko et al. 2003 to this order. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 🚃 The type genus of this order has alternatively been placed in the order Geovibriales 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. 🇬🇧
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 12; JCM: 5; ATCC: 5; NBRC: 4; VKM: 1; VKPM: 1.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 465-471". Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Calditerrivibrionaceae Spring et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Deferribacteraceae Huber and Stetter 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Deferrivibrionaceae Zavarzina et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flexistipitaceae Spring et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Geovibrionaceae Spring et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mucispirillaceae Spring et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Candidatus Termitispirillaceae" Maruoka et al. 2026	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Deferribacteres Huber and Stetter 2002

Assigned by: Huber H, Stetter KO. Class I. Deferribacteres class. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria), Springer, New York, 2001, p. 465-471. 🇺🇸

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