Name DOI
10.1601/nm.17951
Name
 Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status
Validly Published, Illegitimate
Current Authority
Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
class
Nomenclatural Type
(one of the contained orders)
No nomenclatural type has been designated for this class.
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Scotobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History
The class Scotobacteria was originally proposed by Gibbons and Murray 1978. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980.

The Judicial Commission has asserted that this taxon does not have an identifiable type and is not currently in use as a class name. Gibbons and Murray (1978) applied the name to encompasses the non-photosynthetic Gram-negative prokaryotes.
Citation
When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.
Name Abstract for Scotobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980).. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.17951.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2018.

References

  1. Gibbons NE, Murray RGE. Proposals concerning the higher taxa of Bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1978; 28:1-6. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-28-1-1.
  2. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  3. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.069310-0 [PubMed].