Name: "Fusobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Fusobacteriales, type order of the phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Fusobacteria, the phylum of the order Fusobacteriales (nominative plural of Fusobacterium)

Gender: neuter

Type order: Fusobacteriales Staley and Whitman 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: Fusobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2021

• Synonyms:

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this phylum to the infrakingdom "Thermobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧕 Luketa (2012) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Fusobacterida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the class "Fusobacteria" 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 Fusobacteriia Staley and Whitman 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Fuscobacteria"; "Fusibacteria"; "Fwobacteria".
  • 📧 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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