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Class "
Alphaproteobacteria
"
"Garrity and Holt 2001" nom. nud.
(prokaryote)
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Entity:
[Proteobacteria] (Phylum)
..[Alpha Group]
..[Alphabacteria] (Class)
..[Beta Group]
..[Betaproteobacteria] (Class)
..[Delta Group]
..[Deltaproteobacteria] (Class)
..[Epsilonproteobacteria] (Class)
..[Gamma Group]
..[Gammaproteobacteria] (Class)
..[Rhodobacteria] (Subphylum)
..[Thiobacteria] (Subphylum)
..[Alphaproteobacteria] (Class)
....[Rhizobiales] (Order)
....[Rhodobacterales] (Order)
....[Sphingomonadales] (Order)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
"G.M. Garrity & J.G. Holt,
in
D.R. Boone
et al.
, eds., 2001", nom. nud.
Original name, rank & spelling
:
Garrity, G.M. & Holt, J.G. 2001a.
In
D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.),
in
G.M. Garrity (ed.),
Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol.
(ed. 2)
1
: 130, 157.
Attributes
Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)]
Ref:
G.M. Garrity & J.G. Holt, 2001a.
In
D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.),
in
G.M. Garrity (ed.),
Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol.
(ed. 2)
1
: 130, 157. [quotes].
[
new
]
Not explicitly new [ICNP]
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present.
Syst. Nat. 2000
: 2 Jun 2026.
Nomen nudum (nom. nud.) [ICNP, 2019: App. 7 (c), Chap. 4 B(4)]
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present.
Syst. Nat. 2000
: 31 Aug 2021.
[inferred]
Variants
Validly published name
:
Alphaproteobacteria
(Class)
Garrity
et al.
2006
Synonyms
Synonymous name (objective)
:
alpha
(Subclass)
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Alpha Group
([unranked])
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Alphabacteria
(Infraphylum)
(Cavalier-Smith 1992) Cavalier-Smith 1998
Including
:
Budding and/or appendaged bacteria
([unranked])
Including
:
Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria
(Class)
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Last updated:
28 Aug 2026