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Class Gloeobacteria

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".

 

Gloeobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002, class. nov.
Type order: ¤ Gloeobacterales Cavalier-Smith 2002.
Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Gloeobacterales, type order of the class; suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. pl. n. Gloeobacteria, the class of Gloeobacterales.
Valid publication: CAVALIER-SMITH (T.): The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 7-76.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Notes:
1 Gloeobacteria was previously known as "Gloeobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998.
2 The class Gloeobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate because the type order ¤ Gloeobacterales Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate.

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