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Phylum "Chlamydiae"
Name: "Chlamydiae" Garrity and Holt 2001
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Chlamydiales, type order of the phylum; N.L. fem. pl. n. Chlamydiae, the phylum of the order Chlamydiales (nominative plural of Chlamydia)
Type order: Chlamydiales Storz and Page 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
Original publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4. 
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)
Correct name: Chlamydiota Garrity and Holt 2021
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Chlamydiota" Whitman et al. 2018 homotypic synonym, not validly published Chlamydiota Garrity and Holt 2021 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP "Chlamydaeota" Oren et al. 2015 homotypic synonym, not validly published
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Notes:
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🧕 Battistuzzi and Hedges (2009) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Hydrobacteria" Battistuzzi and Hedges 2009.
Publication:
Battistuzzi FU, Hedges SB. A major clade of prokaryotes with ancient adaptations to life on land. Mol Biol Evol 2009; 26:335-343.
- 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
- 🧕 Luketa (2012) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Hydrobacterida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
- 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the class "Chlamydiae" to this phylum. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
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🧒 Gupta et al. (2015) assigned the class Chlamydiia Horn 2016 to this phylum.
Publication:
Gupta RS, Naushad S, Chokshi C, Griffiths E, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic and molecular markers based analysis of the phylum Chlamydiae: proposal to divide the class Chlamydiia into two orders, Chlamydiales and Parachlamydiales ord. nov., and emended description of the class Chlamydiia. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:765-781.
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🧒 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the family "Candidatus Piscichlamydiaceae" Horn 2010 to this phylum.
Publication:
Horn M. Family V. “Candidatus Piscichlamydiaceae”. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 872-873.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chlamyidiae".
- 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Borel N, Horn M, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 20 March 2019, Seattle, WA, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3654-3656.
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Borel N, Greub G, For The Icsp Subcommittee On The Taxonomy Of Chlamydiae. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae: Minutes of the closed meeting, March 20, Meeting of the Chlamydia Research Society, Omaha, NE, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6004.
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Borel N, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae: Minutes of the closed meeting, 25 August 2022, ESCCAR Meeting Lausanne, Switzerland. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2023; 73:0.
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Borel N, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae: Minutes of the closed meeting, March 20, Meeting of the Chlamydia Research Society, Omaha, NE, USA. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2023; 73:0.
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2013; 63:1934-1935.
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2013; 63:1934-1935.
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🧍 The formation of this name was discussed in Judicial Opinion 129.
Publication:
Arahal et al. Judicial Opinion No. 129. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6064.
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🧕 Battistuzzi and Hedges (2009) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Hydrobacteria" Battistuzzi and Hedges 2009.
Publication:
Battistuzzi FU, Hedges SB. A major clade of prokaryotes with ancient adaptations to life on land. Mol Biol Evol 2009; 26:335-343.
Parent taxon: Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024
Assigned by:
LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted.
It may or may not mention this taxon name. —
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
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