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

Category: Division

Proposed as: new division

Type order: Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original 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: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

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

• Synonyms:

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

• Notes:
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Fimzacutes".
  • 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.

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Record number: 776