Name: "Bacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981

Category: Kingdom

Proposed as: regn. 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 (Latin), gender: bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this kingdom to the superkingdom "Prokaryota" Margulis 1974. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned this kingdom to the superkingdom "Prokaryota" Margulis 1974. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981 to this kingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned the subkingdom "Archaebacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981 to this kingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned the subkingdom "Negibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987 to this kingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned the subkingdom "Unibacteria" to this kingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the subkingdom "Negibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this kingdom. 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 subkingdom "Unibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this kingdom. 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 (2006) assigned the subkingdom "Negibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this kingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the subkingdom "Unibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this kingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acteria"; "Bacteira"; "Bacteriaa"; "Bacterie"; "Bacterima"; "Bacteriota"; "Bacteriua"; "Bncteria".
  • 😟 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. 🇳🇿
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/kingdom/bacteriaCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 29414