Name: "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987

Category: Subkingdom

Proposed as: new subkingdom

Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. positivus, positive, because four of the six classes stain Gram-positive, abbreviation thereof; N.L. neut. pl. n. Posibacteria

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The origin of eukaryotic and archaebacterial cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1987; 503:17-54.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Emendations:
  • Cavalier-Smith 2020 Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this subkingdom to the kingdom "Eubacteria" Woese and Fox 1977. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the phylum "Endobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Cavalier-Smith 2020 to this subkingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the phylum "Actinobacteria" Goodfellow 2012 to this subkingdom. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 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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Record number: 29247