Name: "Thiobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Subphylum

Proposed as: new subphylum

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

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this subphylum to the phylum "Proteobacteria" Gray and Herwig 1996. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the class Deltabacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this subphylum. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the class Epsilobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this subphylum. 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.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the class Deltaproteobacteria Kuever et al. 2006 to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the class Epsilonproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the order Aquificales Reysenbach 2002 to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Thiabacteria".
  • This taxon name is a homonym of "Thiobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998.
  • 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.
  • 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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