Name: "Bacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987

Category: Domain

Proposed as: new domain

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Preferred name: "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Bacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Burger-Wiersma et al. (1989) assigned the family Prochlorotrichaceae Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989 to this domain. Publication: Burger-Wiersma T, Stal LJ, Mur LR. Prochlorothrix hollandica gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous oxygenic photoautrotophic procaryote containing chlorophylls a and b: assignment to Prochlorotrichaceae fam. nov. and order Prochlorales Florenzano, Balloni, and Materassi 1986, with emendation of the ordinal description. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:250-257.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Bacteira"; "Bacteriaa"; "Bacterie"; "Bacterima"; "Bacteriota"; "Bacteriua"; "Bncteria".
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Bacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002.
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
  • A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2010. Publication: Tindall BJ, Rossello-Mora R, Busse HJ, Ludwig W, Kampfer P. Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:249-266.

Parent taxon: None.

Assigned by: 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: 29249