Name: "Thiobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998

Category: Subphylum

Proposed as: new subphylum

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, gender: t^hi-o-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 "Proteobacteria" Gray and Herwig 1996. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266.
  • 🧕 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 (2006) assigned this subphylum to the phylum "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned the genus Bdellovibrio Stolp and Starr 1963 (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 Desulfovibrio Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (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 Myxococcus Thaxter 1892 (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 Thiovulum Hinze 1913 (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 (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 (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thiabacteria".
  • 😟 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 Togobacteria 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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