Etymology:N.L. masc. n.Chroococcus, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. suff.-ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n.Chroococcales, the Chroococcus order
Valid 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.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:293-295.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published, rejected name
homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN
Notes:
Nomenclatural type of the class Chroobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002.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 type of the class Oxyphotobacteria (ex Gibbons and Murray 1978) Murray 1988.Publication:
Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Cyanobacteria" (ex Stanier 1974) Cavalier-Smith 2002.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 type of the subphylum "Phycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002.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 type of the superphylum "Cyanobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
Cyanobacteria validly published under the bacteriological code.Publication:
Parker CT, Tindall BJ, Garrity GM. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:S1-S111.
Rejected Name (Judicial Commission, Opinion 79 suppl.; IJSEM 64: 3599–3602).Publication:
Tindall BJ. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602.
The type genus "Chroococcus" does not appear on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, and has not been validly published since 1 January 1980. Consequently, Chroococcales Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate.Publication:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
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