Subclass Anoxyphotobacteriae

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

Category, proposed as: subclass, subclass. nov.

Etymology: An.o.xy.pho.to.bac.te’ri.ae. 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 [probably better: Rhodospirillia]

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: an-o-xy-p^ho-to-bak-TE-ri-a͡e, 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, rejected 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). Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Christensen H, Goker M, Manaia CM, Moore ERB. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2025 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6979. 🇮🇱
  • 🧍 Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). This name was mentioned in a Request for an Opinion. Rank elevation of this subclass apparently resulted in the class Anoxyphotobacteria (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988. Publication: Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 Rejected name (Opinion 129). Publication: Arahal et al. Judicial Opinion No. 129. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6064.

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