Order Thermoproteales

Name: Thermoproteales Zillig and Stetter 1982

Category, proposed as: order, ord. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.pro.te.a’les. N.L. masc. n. Thermoproteus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermoproteales, the Thermoproteus order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: t^her-mo-pro-te-A-les, feminine

Type genus: Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982

Effective publication: Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schilfer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz I, Palm P. Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. C 1981; 2:205-227. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 8. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:266-268.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Thermofilales" Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Burggraf et al. 1997 Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. 🇩🇪 Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1275-1276.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 2 families in the order.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Thermoprotea" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287. 🇮🇱
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Thermoproteia" Oren et al. 2016. Publication: Oren A, Parte A, Garrity GM. Implementation of Rule 8 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes for the renaming of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4296-4298. 🇮🇱
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the subdivision "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. 🇬🇧
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the subphylum "Filarchaeota" Cavalier-Smith 2014. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran revolution and phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and cilia in the light of intracellular coevolution and a revised tree of life. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2014; 6:a016006. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 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 (2006) assigned this order to the subphylum "Crenarchaeota". Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Lake et al. (1984) assigned this order to the kingdom "Eocyta" Lake et al. 1984. Publication: Lake JA, Henderson E, Oakes M, Clark MW. Eocytes: a new ribosome structure indicates a kingdom with a close relationship to eukaryotes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1984; 81:3786-3790. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Zillig et al. (1981) assigned the genus Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982 to this order. Publication: Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schäfer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz I, Palm P. Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras. Zentralbl. Mikrobiol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. 1 Orig. 1981; C2:205-227. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tbermoproteales"; "Thefmoproteales"; "Thennoproteales"; "Thenoproteales".
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Zillig and Stetter) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Zillig et al.).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 20; JCM: 19; ATCC: 7; NBRC: 6; VKM: 2; KCTC: 1; OCM: 1; CIP: 1; UBOCC: 1; H: 1.
  • 🧍 On the Validation List no. 8, in violation of Rules 15 and 21a, the nomenclatural type is given as Thermoproteaceae Zillig and Stetter 1982. 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: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Thermocladiaceae" Rinke et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym
    Thermocladiaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermoproteaceae Zillig and Stetter 1982	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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. 🇺🇸

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