Name: Nitrospirota Oren and Garrity 2021

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Ni.tro.spi.ro’ta. N.L. fem. n. Nitrospira, type genus of the phylum; N.L. neut. pl. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Nitrospirota, the Nitrospira phylum

Type genus: Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986

Valid publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Nitrospiraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Nitrospirae" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Nitrospirota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Nitrospirota" Whitman et al. 2018.

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Record number: 25734