Domain "Bacteria"

Name: "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990

Category: Domain

Proposed as: new domain

Etymology: Gr. neut. n. bakterion, small rod or staff

Original publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Notes:
- Boone et al. (2001) assigned the phylum "Thermomicrobia" Garrity and Holt 2001 to this domain. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum BVII. Thermomicrobia phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 447-450.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 42

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Abditibacteriota" Tahon et al. 2018	not validly published
"Acidobacteria" Thrash and Coates 2012	not validly published
"Actinobacteria" Goodfellow 2012	not validly published
[Aminicenantes]	preliminary entry that lacks crucial information
"Aquificae" Reysenbach 2001	not validly published
"Armatimonadetes" Tamaki et al. 2011	not validly published
[Bacteria, not assigned to phylum]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
"Bacteroidetes" Krieg et al. 2010	not validly published
"Balneolaeota" Hahnke et al. 2016	not validly published
"Caldiserica" Mori et al. 2009	not validly published
"Calditrichaeota" Kublanov et al. 2017	not validly published
"Chlamydiae" Garrity and Holt 2012	not validly published
"Chlorobi" Iino et al. 2010	not validly published
"Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Chrysiogenetes" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Coprothermobacterota" Pavan et al. 2018	not validly published
"Candidatus Cryosericota" Martinez et al. 2019	not validly published
"Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985	not validly published
"Deferribacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Deinococcus-Thermus" Weisburg et al. 1989	not validly published
"Dictyoglomi" Patel 2012	not validly published
"Elusimicrobia" Geissinger et al. 2009	not validly published
"Fibrobacteres" Garrity and Holt 2012	not validly published
"Firmicutes" corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	not validly published
"Fusobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2012	not validly published
"Gemmatimonadetes" Zhang et al. 2003	not validly published
"Kiritimatiellaeota" Spring et al. 2016	not validly published
"Candidatus Krumholzibacteriota" Youssef et al. 2019	not validly published
"Lentisphaerae" Cho et al. 2004	not validly published
"Candidatus Melainabacteria" Di Rienzi et al. 2013	not validly published
"Nitrospirae" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Candidatus Parcunitrobacteria" Castelle et al. 2017	not validly published
"Candidatus Peregrinibacteria" Brown et al. 2015	not validly published
"Planctomycetes" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005	not validly published
"Rhodothermaeota" Munoz et al. 2016	not validly published
"Spirochaetes" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Synergistetes" Jumas-Bilak et al. 2009	not validly published
"Tenericutes" Murray 1984	not validly published
"Thermodesulfobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
"Thermotogae" Reysenbach 2001	not validly published
"Verrucomicrobia" Hedlund et al. 1997	not validly published

Parent taxon: None.

Assigned by: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.

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