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
    "Endobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bacillaeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bacillota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Firmicutes" corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic 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.

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Record number: 776