Name:Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
Category: Class
Proposed as: class. nov.
Etymology:Gr. neut. n.phôs (gen. phôtos), light; N.L. neut. pl. n.bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n.Photobacteria, light-requiring bacteria (not formed from a genus name)
Effective publication:
Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP, rejected name
Taxonomic status:
not in use
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the division Gracilicutes Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
🧕 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this class to the division Gracilicutes Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
🧕 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this class to the phylum "Gracilicutes".Publication:
Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the subclass Anoxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) to this class.Publication:
Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the subclass "Oxyphotobacteriae" Gibbons and Murray 1978 to this class.Publication:
Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pholobacteria".
🧍 Illegitimate according to Tindall (2014). Tindall (2014) notes that the type order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 was provided in Gibbons and Murray (1978) but that this order was not included in the Approved Lists. This is inaccurate, as the order is found in Skerman et al. (1980). However, Gibbons and Murray (1978) actually indicated Oxyphotobacteriae as type subclass of Photobacteria and Rhodospirillales as type order of Oxyphotobacteriae. But in contrast to Anoxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978, Oxyphotobacteriae was not included in the Approved Lists. Tindall (2014): "Not currently used as a class name; as applied by Gibbons and Murray (1978) the name encompasses those Gram-negative (i.e. Gram-stain-negative) prokaryotes that are capable of growing by oxygenic or anoxygenic photosynthesis.".
🧍 Irregularly formed name.Publication:
Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.
🧍 Rejected name (Opinion 128). Nomen dubium (Rule 56a). Part of "misfitting megaclassification".Publication:
Goker M. Solving the remaining problems with names of classes. Request for an Opinion. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5605.
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