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Kingdom Procaryotae

Classification: 

Name: Procaryotae Murray 1968

Category, proposed as: kingdom, regn. nov.

Etymology: Pro.ca.ry.o’tae. Gr. prep. pro, before; Gr. neut. n. karyon, nut, kernel (in biology, nucleus); N.L. fem. pl. n. Procaryotae, before a nucleus, organisms without a nucleus

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pro-ka-ry-O-ta͡e, feminine

Valid publication: Murray RGE. Microbial structure as an aid to microbial classification and taxonomy. Spisy Fac. Sci. Univ. Purkyne (Brno) 1968; 43:245-252.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), descriptive name

Taxonomic status: correct name

  • Notes:
    • 🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the division "Mendocutes" Gibbons and Murray 1978 to this kingdom. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
    • 🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the phylum "Firmacutes" to this kingdom. — 🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the phylum "Gracilicutes" to this kingdom. — 🧒 Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned the phylum "Mollicutes" to this kingdom. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
    • 🧒 Lewin (1976) assigned the division "Prochlorophyta" Lewin 1976 to this kingdom. Publication: Lewin RA. Prochlorophyta as a proposed new division of algae. Nature 1976; 261:697-698.
    • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the division "Mendosicutes" Murray 1984 to this kingdom. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
    • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the division "Tenericutes" Murray 1984 to this kingdom. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
    • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the division Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) to this kingdom. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
    • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the phylum "Firmicutes" to this kingdom. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
    • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the phylum "Gracilicutes" to this kingdom. — 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the phylum "Mendosicutes" to this kingdom. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
    • 🧒 Murray (1984) assigned the phylum "Tenericutes" to this kingdom. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
    • 🧒 Nyberg and Schopf (1984) assigned the division "Schizomycophyta" Nyberg and Schopf 1984 to this kingdom. Publication: Nyberg AV, Schopf JW. Microfossils in stromatolitic cherts from the upper proterozoic Min'yar formation, southern Ural Mountains, USSR. J Paleontol 1984; 58:738-772.
    • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Procaryolae".

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