Name: "Eobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Infrakingdom

Proposed as: new infrakingdom

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. Êôs, dawn, because the absence of lipopolysaccharide suggests they may be the earliest negibacteria; N.L. neut. pl. n. Eobacteria

Type order: Chloroflexales Gupta et al. 2013

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 infrakingdom to the subkingdom "Negibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987. 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 (2002) assigned the division "Eobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this infrakingdom. 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: 729