Name: "Firmacutes" Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Type order: Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: orthographic variant

Correct name: "Firmicutes" corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Eurybacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Bacillota Gibbons and Murray 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Firmicutes" corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Endobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bacillota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Desulfotomaculota" Watanabe et al. 2019	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bacillaeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Gibbons and Murray (1978) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Procaryotae" Murray 1968. Publication: Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals Concerning the Higher Taxa of Bacteria. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:1-6.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Fimzacutes".

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Record number: 776