Name: "Spirochaetae" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Division

Proposed as: new division

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirochaetae, From the genus Spirochaeta.

Type order: Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (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 and Chao (2020) assigned this division to the superphylum "Spirochaetes" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the class Spirochaetes 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.
  • 😵 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: 785