Name: "Exoflagellata" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Superphylum

Proposed as: new superphylum

Etymology: Gr. exo, outside; L. neut. n. flagellum, whip, because they include all negibacteria with flagellar shafts outside the outer membrane; N.L. n. Exoflagellata

Type order: "Enterobacteriales" Garrity and Holt 2001

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 superphylum to the infrakingdom "Glycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. 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 superphylum to the infrakingdom "Gracilicutes" Cavalier-Smith 2006. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the phylum "Planctobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1987) Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this superphylum. 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 phylum "Proteobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this superphylum. 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.
  • The type order "Enterobacteriales" has no standing in bacterial nomenclature.

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