Name: "Sphingobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Division

Proposed as: new division

Etymology: Gr. sphiggo, strangle, because they have sphingolipids; N.L. neut. pl. n. Sphingobacteria

Type order: Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this division to the infrakingdom "Glycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998. 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 class Flavobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this division. 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 class Chlorobea Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this division. 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Sphigobacteria"; "Sphyngobacteria".
  • 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.
  • Sphingobacteria was previously known as "Sphingobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The origin of cells: a symbiosis between genes, catalysts, and membranes. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 1987; 52:805-824.

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Record number: 784