Name: Anoxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Subclass

Proposed as: subclass. nov.

Etymology: Gr. pref. an-, not, without (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. adj. oxys, acid or sour and in combined words indicating oxygen; Gr. neut. n. phôs (gen. phôtos), light; Gr. neut. n. baktêria, staff, cane; N.L. fem. pl. n. Anoxyphotobacteriae, light-requiring bacteria that do not produce oxygen

Gender: feminine

Type order: Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: not in use

• Notes:
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this subclass to the class Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the order Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) to this subclass. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) to this subclass. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • The type order of this subclass has alternatively been placed in the subclass "Caulobacteridae" Ferla et al. 2013. Publication: Ferla MP, Thrash JC, Giovannoni SJ, Patrick WM. New rRNA gene-based phylogenies of the Alphaproteobacteria provide perspective on major groups, mitochondrial ancestry and phylogenetic instability. PLoS One 2013; 8:e83383.
  • The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
  • Anoxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978 is illegitimate because the formation of the name contravenes Rule 8 of the ICNP (not derived from the name of the nomenclatural type). — Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). Publication: Parker CT, Tindall BJ, Garrity GM. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:S1-S111.
  • This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.

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Record number: 5997