Phylum "Chlorobi"

Name: "Chlorobi" Iino et al. 2010

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Chlo.ro’bi. N.L. neut. n. Chlorobium, genus of the phylum; N.L. masc. pl. n. Chlorobi, phylum of the genus Chlorobium (inaccurate nominative plural)

Gender: masculine

Type order: "Chlorobiales" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original publication: Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1376-1382. 🇯🇵

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Ignavibacteriota Podosokorskaya et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Ignavibacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Ignavibacteriae" Podosokorskaya et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Chlorobi" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
"Ignavibacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Chlorobiota" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
"Chlorobaeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

Notes:
- 🧕 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. 🇷🇸
- 🧕 Rinke et al. (2013) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "FCB" Rinke et al. 2013. Publication: Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437. 🇺🇸
- 🧒 Göker (2022) assigned the class Chlorobiia Garrity and Holt 2022 to this phylum. Publication: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638. 🇩🇪
- 🧒 Iino et al. (2010) assigned the class Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this phylum. Publication: Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1376-1382. 🇯🇵
- 🧒 Iino et al. (2010) assigned the class Ignavibacteria Iino et al. 2010 to this phylum. Publication: Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1376-1382. 🇯🇵
- 🧒 Iino et al. (2010) assigned the infraphylum "Bacteroidetes" to this phylum. Publication: Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1376-1382. 🇯🇵
- 🧍 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.
- 🧍 The neo-Latin noun "Chlorobi" cannot be a neo-Latin feminine plural noun as cited in the paper by Iino et al. 2010. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

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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