Name: "Gracilicutes" Cavalier-Smith 2006

Category: Infrakingdom

Proposed as: new infrakingdom

Etymology: Gra.ci.li’cu.tes. L. fem. pl. n. cutes, skins; N.L. fem. pl. n. Gracilicutes, division with thinner cell walls, implying a gram-negative type of cell wall (name not derived from the name of a genus)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: gra-ki-LI-ku-tes, feminine

Type order: "Chlorobiales" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned this infrakingdom to the subkingdom "Negibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this infrakingdom to the subkingdom "Neonegibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the phylum "Spirochaetae" (Ehrenberg 1855) Cavalier-Smith 1998 to this infrakingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the phylum "Sphingobacteria" to this infrakingdom. — 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the superphylum "Exoflagellata" to this infrakingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the parvkingdom "Proteobacteria" to this infrakingdom. — 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the parvkingdom "Spiroplanctia" to this infrakingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gracilicules"; "Gracillicutes".
  • 😵 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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