Name: Sulfolobales Stetter 1989

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Sulfolobus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Sulfolobales, the Sulfolobus order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Stetter KO. Order 111. Sulfofobales ord. nov. Family Sulfolobaceae fam. nov. In: Staley JT, Bryant MP, Pfennig N, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1989, p. 2250-2251.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 31. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:495-497.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• 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 (1998) assigned this order to the subphylum "Sulfobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1986) Cavalier-Smith 1998. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266.
  • 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Suffolobales"; "Sulfoflobales"; "Sulfofobales"; "Sulioiobales"; "Suliolobales"; "Suljolobales"; "Sullolobales"; "Suvolobales".
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 27; DSM: 23; NBRC: 16; IFO: 12; ATCC: 9; CGMCC: 3; CIP: 2; KCTC: 1.
  • See also Liu et al. (2021). Publication: Liu LJ, Jiang Z, Wang P, Qin YL, Xu W, Wang Y, Liu SJ, Jiang CY. Physiology, Taxonomy, and Sulfur Metabolism of the Sulfolobales, an Order of Thermoacidophilic Archaea. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:768283.
  • On the Validation List no. 31, in violation of Rules 15 and 21a, the nomenclatural type is given as Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989. Publication: Euzeby JP, Tindall BJ. Nomenclatural type of orders: corrections necessary according to Rules 15 and 21a of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision), and designation of appropriate nomenclatural types of classes and subclasses. Request for an opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:725-727.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Sulfolobales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

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.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/order/sulfolobalesCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 5039