Name: Cyanobacteria Garcia-Pichel et al. 2020

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Cy.a.no.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. masc. n. kyanos, blue-green, because of their common colour and the traditional name Cyanophyceae or blue-green algae; N.L. neut. pl. n. Cyanobacteria

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ky-a-no-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Valid publication: Garcia-Pichel F, Zehr JP, Bhattacharya D, Pakrasi HB. What's in a name? The case of cyanobacteria. J Phycol 2020; 56:1-5. 🇺🇸

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cyanobacteriota Oren et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Cyanoprokaryota" Komárek and Golubić 1990	heterotypic synonym, not validly published, descriptive name
    "Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Protophytaria Walton 1931	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), descriptive name
    Cyanophyta Geitler 1925	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code), descriptive name
    Cyanobacteriophyta corrig. Oren et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, inappropriate correction

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this phylum to the subkingdom "Eoglycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Oxybacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the subphylum "Gloeobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998 to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the subphylum "Phycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998 to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Strunecky et al. (2023) assigned the class Vampirovibrionophyceae corrig. Strunecký and Mareš 2023 to this phylum. 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: "Ayanobacteria"; "Ceanobacteria"; "Cianobacteria"; "Crynobacteria"; "Cvanobacteria"; "Cyanbacteria"; "Cyannbacteria"; "Cyanobacleiia"; "Cyanobacte"; "Cyanobacteiia"; "Cyanobacteriae"; "Cyanobactma"; "Cyanohacteria"; "Cyantobacteria"; "Cyarzobacteria"; "Cyatiobacteria"; "Cyauobacteria"; "Cynaobacteria"; "Cynnobacteria"; "Cynobacteria"; "Oyanobacteria"; "Qjanobacteria".
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985.

Parent taxon: Bacillati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪

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