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, dropping the ending to denote a phylum; M.L. fem. pl. n. Aquificae, the phylum of Aquificales

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

• 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:
  • Aquificae Reysenbach 2002 might have been considered as a later homotypic synonym of Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002. However, Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate. {2} In Validation List no. 85, the page numbers of the effective publication are cited as "pp. 359-367".

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aquificae Reysenbach 2002	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990

Assigned by: 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.

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