Name: Chroobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Chroococcales, type order of the class; Gr. neut. n. baktêria, staff, cane; N.L. neut. pl. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Chroobacteria, the Chroococcales class

Gender: neuter

Type order: Chroococcales Cavalier-Smith 2002

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.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:293-295.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cyanophyceae Schaffner 1909

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Gloeobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Cyanophyceae Schaffner 1909	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Oxyphotobacteria (ex Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Hormogoneae Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subphylum "Phycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Chroococcales Schaffner 1922 to this class. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Oscillatoriales Schaffner 1922 to this class. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the order Pleurocapsales Geitler 1925 to this class. 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.
  • Cyanobacteria validly published under the bacteriological code. Publication: Parker CT, Tindall BJ, Garrity GM. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:S1-S111.
  • Irregularly formed name (not formed from the stem of the name of the nomenclatural type). Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602), see Tindall (2014). Publication: Tindall BJ. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602.
  • The class Chroobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate because the type order Chroococcales Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate. Publication: Schaffner JH. The classification of plants XII. Ohio Journal of Science 1922; 22:129-139.

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