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Order Cytophagales

Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow () only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").


For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).


 

Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974, ordo. (Type order of the class ¤ Flavobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002; type order of the class ¤ Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012).
Type genus: ¤ Cytophaga Winogradsky 1929 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Cytophaga, type genus of the order; suff. -ales, ending denoting an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Cytophagales, the Cytophaga order.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: LEADBETTER (E.R.): Order II. Cytophagales Nomen novum. In: R.E. BUCHANAN and N.E. GIBBONS (editors): Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, eighth edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1974, p.99.

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