Chloroflexota

Citation

Formal styling

Chloroflexota corrig. Garrity et al., 2001 emend. Oren, Garrity, 2021

Effective publication

Garrity et al., 2001

Corrigendum

Oren, Garrity, 2021 from “Chloroflexi” (sic)

Emended in

Oren, Garrity, 2021

SeqCode status

Valid (ICNP)

Canonical URL

https://seqco.de/i:752

Nomenclature

Rank

Phylum

Inferred stem

Chloroflex-

Syllabication

Chlo.ro.fle.xo'ta

Etymology

N.L. masc. n. Chloroflexus, type genus of the phylum; N.L. neut. pl. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Chloroflexota, the Chloroflexus phylum

Nomenclatural type

Chloroflexus

Taxonomy

Description

Garrity and Holt, 2021: The phylum Chloroflexi is a deep branching lineage of Bacteria. The single class within Chloroflexi subdivides into two orders: the “Chloroflexales” and the “Herpetosiphonales”. Gram-negative, filamentous Bacteria. exhibiting gliding motility. Peptidoglycan contains L-ornithine as the diamino acid. Lipopolysaccharide-containing outer membrane not present.

Oren and Garrity, 2021: The properties of the taxon are as described by Garrity and Holt, 2001. Correction of the effectively published synonym: Chloroflexi (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001. Type genus: Chloroflexus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).

Classification

Bacteria » Chloroflexota

Parent

Bacteria ncbigtdb

Children (11)

• Anaerolineae ncbigtdb
• Ardenticatenia ncbi
• Caldilineae ncbi
• Candidatus Limnocylindria gtdb
• Chloroflexia ncbigtdb
• Dehalococcoidia ncbigtdb
• Ktedonobacteria ncbigtdb
• “Monstramaria”
• Tepidiformia ncbi
• Thermoflexia ncbi
• “Thermofontia”

Alternatively placed children (1)

• “Dormibacteria” gtdb (preferred placement in Dormibacterota)

Pseudonyms

• Chloroflexaeota (Misspelling or other orthographic variants)
• Chloroflexi (Original, corrected name)

Metadata

Outside links and data sources

• NCBI Taxonomy: 200795
• GTDB Tree: p__Chloroflexota
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Wikispecies: Chloroflexota (see reference source)

Search sequences

• Seach in NCBI Nucleotide
• NCBI Genomes table

Local history

• This name was last modified 11 months ago
• Submission process status
• Quality checks before valid publication

Registered by

Rodriguez-R, Luis M about 3 years ago

Reported valid by

Rodriguez-R, Luis M almost 2 years ago