Name: "Tenericutes" Murray 1984

Category: Division

Proposed as: new division

Etymology: Te.ne.ri’cu.tes. L. masc. adj. tener, tender; L. fem. n. cutis, skin; N.L. fem. pl. n. Tenericutes, prokaryotes of a soft pliable nature indicative of a lack of a rigid cell wall

Pronunciation, gender: te-ne-RI-ku-tes, feminine

Type class: Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 15. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:355-357.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Murray (1984) assigned this division to the kingdom "Procaryotae" Murray 1968. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
  • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) to this division. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
  • 🚃 The type class of this division has alternatively been placed in the division "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. 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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tenercutes"; "Teneriicutes"; "Teneriquetes"; "Tenevicutes"; "Terenicutes".
  • 😵 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: 906