Name: Firmacutes Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Division

Proposed as: new division

Type order: Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

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

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Preferred name: Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Fimzacutes".
  • ❗ Firmacutes is the correct name instead if this division is regarded as a separate division (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another division whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 😴 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
  • 🧍 Rejected name (Opinion 129) and misspelling. Treated by the Judicial Commission in response to a request by Pallen (2023). Publication: Pallen MJ. Request for an Opinion on the standing and retention of Firmicutes as a phylum name. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5933.

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Record number: 776