Name: "Verrucomicrobiota" Whitman et al. 2018

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Type class: Verrucomicrobiae Hedlund et al. 1998

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

Correct name: "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund 2010	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Verrucomicrobaeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum "Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997. Publication: Hedlund BP, Gosink JJ, Staley JT. Verrucomicrobia div. nov., a new division of the bacteria containing three new species of Prosthecobacter. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1997; 72:29-38.
  • The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Planctobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1987) Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Borel N, Horn M, Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 20 March 2019, Seattle, WA, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3654-3656.

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