Tropheryma La Scola et al. 2001 Tropheryma La Scola et al. 2001 Tropheryma whipplei La Scola et al. 2001 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018 Universal Root Woese et al. 1990 Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997 Actinomycetota corrig. Goodfellow 2021 Actinobacteriota corrig. Goodfellow 2021 Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) Microbacteriales Salam et al. 2020 Tropherymataceae Nouioui et al. 2018 Tropheryma La Scola et al. 2001 Tropherymataceae Nouioui et al. 2018 Tropheryma whipplei La Scola et al. 2001 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I. Carro L. García-López M. Meier-Kolthoff J.P. Woyke T. Kyrpides N.C. Pukall R. Klenk H.-P. Goodfellow M. Göker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria 2018 9 2007 2007 Frontiers in Microbiology Front. Microbio. 1664-302X 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007 30186281 La Scola B. Fenollar F. Fournier P.E. Altwegg M. Mallet M.N. Raoult D. Description of Tropheryma whipplei gen. nov., sp. nov., the Whipple's disease bacillus. 2001 51 4 1471 1479 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/00207713-51-4-1471 11491348 Zhi X.Y. Li W.J. Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. 2009 59 3 589 608 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijs.0.65780-0 19244447 La Scola B. Fenollar F. Fournier P.E. Altwegg M. Mallet M.N. Raoult D. Description of Tropheryma whipplei gen. nov., sp. nov., the Whipple's disease bacillus. 2001 51 4 1471 1479 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/00207713-51-4-1471 11491348 Tindall B.J. The status of names whose nomenclatural types are based on strains deposited solely for patent purposes. 2019 69 8 2616 2620 International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 1466-5026 1466-5034 10.1099/ijsem.0.003527 31215862 Tindall 2019 asserts that the nomenclatural type is based upon a patent strain and is therefore illegitimate. Consequently, this genus is also illegitimate until a publicly available deposit is made available.