Name: Gloeobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Gloeobacterales, type order of the class; N.L. neut. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Gloeobacteria, the class of Gloeobacterales

Gender: neuter

Type order: Gloeobacterales 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
    Oxyphotobacteria (ex Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Hormogoneae Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
    Cyanophyceae Schaffner 1909	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Chroobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this class to the subphylum "Gloeobacteria" 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 Gloeobacterales Cavalier-Smith 2002 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.
  • The type order of this class has been placed in the class Cyanophyceae Schaffner 1909. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
  • 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.
  • Gloeobacteria was previously known as "Gloeobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998. — The class Gloeobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate because the type order Gloeobacterales Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol. Rev. 1998; 73:203-266.
  • Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602). 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.

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