Name: "Oxybacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020

Category: Superphylum

Proposed as: new superphylum

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Oxybacteria, Oxy (from oxygen) + bacteria as they are oxygenic photosynthesisers plus their closest relatives.

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this superphylum 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 and Chao (2020) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Melainabacteria" Di Rienzi et al. 2013 to this superphylum. 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 and Chao (2020) assigned the phylum "Cyanobacteria" Woese et al. 1985 to this superphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 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 authority of the taxon name (Cavalier Smith) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Cavalier Smith and Chao).

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Record number: 14445