Name: "Cyanobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006

Category: Superphylum

Proposed as: new superphylum

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

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned this superphylum 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 (2006) assigned the phylum "Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985 to this superphylum. 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: "Cianobacteria"; "Cyanobacteriae"; "Cynobacteria".
  • 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