Name: "Proteobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc. n. Prôteus; N.L. neut. pl. n. Proteobacteria

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Enterobacteriales" Garrity and Holt 2001

Original 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 status: not validly published

Correct name: Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Desulfobacterota" Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bdellovibrionota" Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Alphaproteobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Alphaproteobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Jroleobacteria"; "Jroteobacteria"; "Pateobacteria"; "Pmteobacteria"; "Preotobacteria"; "Profeobacferia"; "Profeobacteria"; "Proleobacteria"; "Proreobacteria"; "Protebacteria"; "Protenbacteria"; "Proteobacleiia"; "Proteobacleria"; "Proteobacreria"; "Proteobacteiia"; "Proteobactena"; "Proteobacteriota"; "Proteobactma"; "Proteobuctena"; "Proteoobacteria"; "Proteoteobacteria"; "Proterobacteria"; "Protevbacteria"; "Prothbacteria"; "Protobacteria"; "Prottabacteria"; "Prottobacteria"; "Prouabacteria"; "Prouobacteria"; "Pvoteobacteria".
  • This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Proteobacter"; "Proteobacterium".
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005.
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Proteobacteria" Gray and Herwig 1996.

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Record number: 773