Name: "Fusobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998

Category: Subphylum

Proposed as: new subphylum

Etymology: Fu.so.bac.te’ri.a. N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Fusobacteria, the Fusobacteriales class

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: fu-so-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned this subphylum to the phylum "Eurybacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this subphylum to the infrakingdom "Thermobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. 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 (1998) assigned the genus Fusobacterium Knorr 1922 (Approved Lists 1980) to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned the genus Leptotrichia Trevisan 1879 (Approved Lists 1980) to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 🇬🇧
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Fuscobacteria"; "Fusibacteria"; "Fwobacteria".
  • 😟 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.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Fibrobacteria from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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