Name: "Fibrobacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Fibrobacterales, type order of the phylum; N.L. masc. pl. n. Fibrobacteres, the phylum of Fibrobacterales (nominative plural of Fibrobacter)

Gender: masculine

Type order: Fibrobacterales Spain et al. 2012

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: Fibrobacterota Garrity and Holt 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Fibrobacterota" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Fibrobacterota Garrity and Holt 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Fibrobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• 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. 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 "Fibrobacteres" 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.
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the class Fibrobacteria Spain et al. 2012 to this phylum. Publication: Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. 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. 471-563.
  • Sorokin et al. (2014) assigned the class Chitinivibrionia Sorokin et al. 2014 to this phylum. Publication: Sorokin DY, Gumerov VM, Rakitin AL, Beletsky AV, Damste JS, Muyzer G, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Genome analysis of Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely haloalkaliphilic anaerobic chitinolytic bacterium from the candidate phylum Termite Group 3. Environ Microbiol 2014; 16:1549-1565.
  • Sorokin et al. (2016) assigned the class Chitinispirillia Sorokin et al. 2016 to this phylum. Publication: Sorokin DY, Rakitin AL, Gumerov VM, Beletsky AV, Sinninghe Damste JS, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Phenotypic and Genomic Properties of Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., A Haloalkaliphilic Anaerobic Chitinolytic Bacterium Representing a Novel Class in the Phylum Fibrobacteres. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:407.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Fibribacteres"; "Fibrobscteres"; "Fribrobacteres"; "Jrobacteres".
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

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