Name: "Chlorobi" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

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

Gender: masculine

Type class: "Chlorobia" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BXI. Chlorobi 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. 601-623.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Chlorobi" Iino et al. 2010	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Ignavibacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Chlorobiota" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Ignavibacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Chlorobaeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Ignavibacteriae" Podosokorskaya et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Ignavibacteriota Podosokorskaya et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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. Phylum BXI. Chlorobi 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. 601-623.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the class "Chlorobia" Garrity and Holt 2001 to this phylum. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BXI. Chlorobi 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. 601-623.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the class "Chlorobiia" corrig. Garrity and Holt 2001 to this phylum. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BXI. Chlorobi 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. 601-623.
  • 🛺 The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
  • 🚃 The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Chlorobiota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • 🚃 The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum Chlorobiota Iino et al. 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧍 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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