Order Nitrosococcales

Name: Nitrosococcales Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category, proposed as: order, ord. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.coc.ca’les. N.L. masc. n. Nitrosococcus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Nitrosococcales, order of the genus Nitrosococcus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ni-tro-so-kok-KA-les, feminine

Type genus: Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective 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. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Chromatiales Imhoff 2005

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Chromatiales Imhoff 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Thiohalospirales Sorokin and Merkel 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Granulosicoccales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Nitrococcales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Thiohalomonadales Sorokin and Merkel 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Tenderiales" Chuvochina et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, not pro-validly published
    Ectothiorhodospirales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Methylohalomonadales Sorokin and Merkel 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Halothiobacillales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Natronospirales Sorokin et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Woeseiales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the family Methylophagaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024 to this order. 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the family Nitrosococcaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024 to this order. 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Nitrosococcus Winogradsky 1892 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrosoccocales".
  • ❗ Nitrosococcales is the correct name instead 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).

Parent taxon: Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005

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. — Imhoff JF. Order I. Chromatiales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1-3. 🇺🇸

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