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Subdivision "Thiobacteria"
Name: "Thiobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002
Etymology: Gr. neut. n. theîon, sulphur, because sulphate reduction might have been their ancestral phenotype; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thiobacteria
Type order: Myxococcales Tchan et al. 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
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
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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Notes:
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🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this subdivision to the division "Proteobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002.
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.
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🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the class Deltabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this subdivision.
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.
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🧒 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the class Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this subdivision.
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.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thiabacteria".
- 😵 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
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🧍 Thiobacteria was previously known as "Thiobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266.
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🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this subdivision to the division "Proteobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002.
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.
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Record number: 4611
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