Name: "Bacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987

Category: Domain

Proposed as: dom. nov.

Etymology: Bac.te’ri.a. N.L. neut. pl. n. Bacteria, derived from the plural of bacterium (not formed from a genus name)

Pronunciation, gender: bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• 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.
  • 🧒 Montgomery and Pollak (1988) assigned the genus "Candidatus Epulonipiscium" corrig. Montgomery and Pollak 1988 to this domain. Publication: Montgomery WL, Pollak PE. Epulopiscium fishelsoni n. g., n. sp., a protist of uncertain taxonomic affinities from the gut of a herbivorous reef fish. J Protozool 1988; 35:565-569.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) 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.
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Bacteria Woese et al. 2024.
  • 😟 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.
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2018. Publication: Chun J, Oren A, Ventosa A, Christensen H, Arahal DR, da Costa MS, Rooney AP, Yi H, Xu XW, De Meyer S, et al. Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:461-466.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: On SLW. Minutes of the inaugural 25 October 2022 meeting of International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittees on Taxonomy representatives: challenges, trends, and perspectives for microbial taxonomists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6075.

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