Name: Nostocales Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Nostoc, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Nostocales, the Nostoc order

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Nostoc Vaucher ex Bornet and Flahault 1886

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 under the ICNP, rejected name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Nostocales Borzì 1914

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nostocales Borzì 1914	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
    Stigonematales (ex Geitler 1925) Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the class Hormogoneae 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 infrakingdom "Glidobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Noctocales"; "Nootocales"; "Noslocales"; "Nostncales"; "Nostocacales"; "Nostochales"; "Nostococcales"; "Vostocales".
  • 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 "Nostoc" does not appear on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, and has not been validly published since 1 January 1980. Consequently, Nostocales 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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