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Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Phylum "Proteobacteria"

Name: "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc. n. Prôteus, Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Proteobacteria, protean phylum of bacteria of diverse properties despite a common ancestry, and having 16S rRNA gene sequences related to those of the members of the order Pseudomonadales

Gender: neuter

Type order: Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Phylum XIV. Proteobacteria phyl. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021

Parent taxon: Bacteria Woese et al. 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. — Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.

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