Name: "Aquificae" Reysenbach 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.fi’cae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Aquificales, type order of the phylum; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ae, ending sometimes incorrectly used for class or phylum names; N.L. fem. pl. n. Aquificae, the phylum of Aquificales (sic)

Gender: feminine

Type order: Aquificales Reysenbach 2002

Original publication: Reysenbach AL. Phylum BI. Aquificae 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. 359-367.

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: not validly published

Correct name: Aquificota Reysenbach 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Aquificota Reysenbach 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Aquithermota" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Aquificota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Aquificaeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Emendations:
  • Gupta and Lali 2013 Gupta RS, Lali R. Molecular signatures for the phylum Aquificae and its different clades: proposal for division of the phylum Aquificae into the emended order Aquificales, containing the families Aquificaceae and Hydrogenothermaceae, and a new order Desulfurobacteriales ord. nov., containing the family Desulfurobacteriaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:349-368. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 19. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:8-10.

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Reysenbach AL. Phylum BI. Aquificae 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. 359-367.
  • Luketa (2012) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Aquificida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • Gupta and Lali (2013) assigned the class Aquificae Reysenbach 2002 to this phylum. Publication: Gupta RS, Lali R. Molecular signatures for the phylum Aquificae and its different clades: proposal for division of the phylum Aquificae into the emended order Aquificales, containing the families Aquificaceae and Hydrogenothermaceae, and a new order Desulfurobacteriales ord. nov., containing the family Desulfurobacteriaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:349-368.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Aquijicae".
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

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