Name: "Nitrospirota" Whitman et al. 2018

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Type class: "Nitrospiria" Oren et al. 2015

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Nitrospiraeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Whitman et al. (2018) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. 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.
  • Umezawa et al. (2021) assigned the class "Thermodesulfovibrionia" Umezawa et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Umezawa K, Kojima H, Kato Y, Fukui M. Dissulfurispira thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic chemolithoautotroph growing by sulfur disproportionation, and proposal of novel taxa in the phylum Nitrospirota to reclassify the genus Thermodesulfovibrio. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126184.

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