Name: Spirillales Prévot 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Spi.ril.la’les. N.L. neut. dim. n. Spirillum, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirillales, the Spirillum order

Pronunciation, gender: spi-ril-LA-les, feminine

Type genus: Spirillum Ehrenberg 1832 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Prévot AR. Manuel de classification et de determination des bacteries anaerobies. 1st ed. Masson, Paris, 1940.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nitrosomonadales Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Methylophilales Garrity et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Sulfuricellales Watanabe et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Prevot (1940) assigned this order to the kingdom "Schizomycetes". Publication: Prévot AR. Manuel de Classification et de Détermination des Bactéries Anaérobies, 1st ed. Masson, Paris, 1940.
  • 🧒 Prevot (1940) assigned the family "Vibrionaceae" to this order. Publication: Prévot AR. Manuel de Classification et de Détermination des Bactéries Anaérobies, 1st ed. Masson, Paris, 1940.
  • 🧒 Prevot (1940) assigned the genus Spirillum Ehrenberg 1832 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Prévot AR. Manuel de Classification et de Détermination des Bactéries Anaérobies, 1st ed. Masson, Paris, 1940.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 74; ATCC: 37; NBRC: 28; JCM: 27; VKM: 26; NCIMB: 16; CIP: 12; CCUG: 10; NCCB: 7; IFO: 7.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Gallionellaceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Methylophilaceae Garrity et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrosomonadaceae Garrity et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Spirillaceae Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sterolibacteriaceae Boden et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfuricellaceae Watanabe et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sulfuriferulaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thiobacillaceae Boden et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Usitatibacteraceae Vieira et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class II. Betaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 575.

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