Name: "Cyanobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006

Category: Superdivision

Proposed as: new superdivision

Etymology: Cy.a.no.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. masc. n. kyanos, blue-green, because of their common colour and the traditional name Cyanophyceae or blue-green algae; N.L. neut. pl. n. Cyanobacteria

Pronunciation, gender: ky-a-no-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type order: Chroococcales Cavalier-Smith 2002

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned this superdivision to the infrakingdom "Glidobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this superdivision to the subkingdom "Eoglycobacteria" 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 (2006) assigned the phylum "Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985 to this superdivision. 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: "Ayanobacteria"; "Ceanobacteria"; "Cianobacteria"; "Crynobacteria"; "Cvanobacteria"; "Cyanbacteria"; "Cyannbacteria"; "Cyanobacleiia"; "Cyanobacte"; "Cyanobacteiia"; "Cyanobacteriae"; "Cyanobactma"; "Cyanohacteria"; "Cyantobacteria"; "Cyarzobacteria"; "Cyatiobacteria"; "Cyauobacteria"; "Cynaobacteria"; "Cynnobacteria"; "Cynobacteria"; "Oyanobacteria"; "Qjanobacteria".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the closed online meeting, 10-30 June 2014. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3910-3912. 🇩🇪
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the meetings, 11 August 2009, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3907-3909. 🇩🇪
  • 😵 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: 4726