Name: Neomoorellales Gtari and Ventura 2025

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Ne.o.moo.rel.la’les. N.L. fem. dim. n. Neomoorella, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Neomoorellales, the Neomoorella order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Neomoorella Gtari and Ventura 2025

Valid publication: Gtari M, Ventura S. Proposal of Neomoorella gen. nov. as a replacement name for the illegitimate prokaryotic genus name Moorella Collins et al. 1994. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6779.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Desulfitibacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Desulfitibacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Moorellales Lv et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Gtari and Ventura (2025) assigned the family Desulfitibacteraceae Lv et al. 2020 to this order. Publication: Gtari M, Ventura S. Proposal of Neomoorella gen. nov. as a replacement name for the illegitimate prokaryotic genus name Moorella Collins et al. 1994. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6779.
  • 🧒 Gtari and Ventura (2025) assigned the family Neomoorellaceae Gtari and Ventura 2025 to this order. Publication: Gtari M, Ventura S. Proposal of Neomoorella gen. nov. as a replacement name for the illegitimate prokaryotic genus name Moorella Collins et al. 1994. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6779.
  • 🧒 Gtari and Ventura (2025) assigned the genus Neomoorella Gtari and Ventura 2025 to this order. Publication: Gtari M, Ventura S. Proposal of Neomoorella gen. nov. as a replacement name for the illegitimate prokaryotic genus name Moorella Collins et al. 1994. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6779.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Neomorellales".
  • 🧍 Neomoorellales Gtari and Ventura 2025 is illegitimate because it by implication contains Desulfitibacter Nielsen et al. 2006, the type genus of Desulfitibacterales Chuvochina et al. 2024, which should have been used instead [Rule 51b(1)]. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

Parent taxon: Clostridia Rainey 2010

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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