Name: Thermales Rainey and da Costa 2002

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Ther.ma’les. N.L. masc. n. Thermus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermales, the Thermus order

Pronunciation, gender: t^her-MA-les, feminine

Type genus: Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Rainey FA, da Costa MS. Order II. Thermales ord. 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. 403-420.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Hadobacteria 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Thermia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Hadobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this order to the class "Thermia" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Rainey FA, da Costa MS. Order II. Thermales ord. 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. 403-420.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ahermales"; "Lhermales"; "Thennales"; "Thermaks".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 38; ATCC: 20; NBRC: 17; JCM: 17; KCTC: 14; NCIMB: 12; CCTCC: 9; BCRC: 8; CGMCC: 8; SYSU: 6.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 403-420". Publication: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Marinithermaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Class I. Deinococci 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. 395-403.

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