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Superphylum "Spirochaetes"
Name: "Spirochaetes" Cavalier-Smith 2020
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
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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Notes:
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🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this superphylum to the parvkingdom "Spiroplanctia".
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
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🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the division "Spirochaetae" Cavalier-Smith 2002 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.
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🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the phylum "Spirochaetae" (Ehrenberg 1855) Cavalier-Smith 1998 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.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sphirochaetes"; "Spiochaetes"; "Spirocbaetes"; "Spirochates"; "Spirochatetes"; "Spirochcetes"; "Spirochetes"; "Spirochietes"; "Spirochmycetes"; "Spirochretes"; "Spirochsetes"; "Sprichoaetes"; "Spriochaetes"; "Spyrochaetes".
- 😟 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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🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this superphylum to the parvkingdom "Spiroplanctia".
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
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Record number: 14446
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