Name: Nitrospirales Garrity and Holt 2022

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.spi.ra’les. N.L. fem. n. Nitrospira, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Nitrospirales, the order of the genus Nitrospira

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986

Valid publication: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5799.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Nitrospirales" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Leptospirillales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Goeker (2022) assigned the genus Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986 to this order. Publication: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.
  • 🚃 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrosporales".
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Garrity and Holt) deliberately differs from the author of the publication (Göker).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 6; ATCC: 4; NCIMB: 3; VKM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leptospirillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Candidatus Magnetobacteriaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Nitrospiraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    [Nitrospirales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Nitrospiria Garrity and Holt 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.

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Record number: 34884