Subdivision "Thiobacteria"

Name: "Thiobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Subdivision

Proposed as: new subdivision

Etymology: Thi.o.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. neut. n. theîon, sulphur, because sulphate reduction might have been their ancestral phenotype; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thiobacteria

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: thi-o-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

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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Record number: 4611

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