Name: Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fu.ro.coc.ca’les. N.L. masc. n. Desulfurococcus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Desulfurococcales, the Desulfurococcus order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-sul-fu-ro-kok-KA-les, feminine

Type genus: Desulfurococcus Zillig and Stetter 1983

Effective publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Order II. Desulfurococcales 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. 179-197. 🇺🇸

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
    "Igneococcales" Burggraf et al. 1997	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this order to the phylum "Crenarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum AI. Crenarchaeota phy. nov. 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. 169-210. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this order to the class Crenarchaeota 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Desulfurococcus Zillig and Stetter 1983 to this order. Publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Order II. Desulfurococcales 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. 179-197. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Niederberger et al. (2006) assigned the genus Ignisphaera Niederberger et al. 2006 to this order. Publication: Niederberger TD, Gotz DK, McDonald IR, Ronimus RS, Morgan HW. Ignisphaera aggregans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote isolated from hot springs in Rotorua and Tokaanu, New Zealand. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:965-971. 🇳🇿
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Desulfolococcales"; "Desulforococcales"; "Drsulfurococcales".
  • 📧 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: 23; JCM: 18; ATCC: 9; VKM: 5; NBRC: 3; UQM: 1; OCM: 1.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 179-197". 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: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Desulfurococcales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Ignicoccaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Ignicoccaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym
    Ignisphaeraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Ignisphaeraceae" Rinke et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym
    Pyrodictiaceae Burggraf et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002

Assigned by: Reysenbach A-L. Class I. Thermoprotei 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. 169-210. 🇺🇸

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