Name: "Gloeobacterales" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Gloe.o.bac.te.ra’les. N.L. masc. n. Gloeobacter, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Gloeobacterales, the Gloeobacter order

Pronunciation, gender: glo͡e-o-bak-te-RA-les, feminine

Type genus: "Gloeobacter" Rippka et al. 1974

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. 🇬🇧

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: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Gloeobacteria 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 subdivision "Gloeobacteria" 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this order to the class Gloeobacteria 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. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this order to the class Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this order to the subclass "Gloeobacterophycidae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115. 🇱🇺
  • 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this order to the subclass "Gloeobacterophycidae" Hoffmann et al. 2005. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
  • 🧕 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned this order to the class Cyanophyceae Hauck 1885. Publication: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 🇨🇿
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Gloebacterales".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 3; BRNM: 2; PCC: 2; UTEX: 1; BH: 1; ULC: 1; CCAP: 1; US: 1.
  • 🧍 Considered not validly published. Name of type genus not validly published. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585. 🇮🇱
  • 🧍 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 "Gloeobacter" has no standing in bacterial nomenclature. Consequently, Gloeobacterales Cavalier-Smith 2002 is illegitimate. Publication: Rippka R, Waterbury J, Cohen-Bazire G. A Cyanobacterium Which Lacks Thylakoids. Arch. Microbiol. 1974; 100:419-436.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Anthocerotibacteraceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023	validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)	correct name
    "Gloeobacteraceae" Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995	not validly published	preferred name
    [Gloeobacterales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Chroococcophyceae Hollerbach et al. 1953

Assigned by: Aleksovski B, Krstić S, Guiry MD. The names of phyla and classes of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria, cyanophytes) and a typified name: Cyanobacteriophyta Oren, Mareš et Rippka. Fottea 2025; 25:212-217. 🇮🇪

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