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Taxon: Genus "Gloeobacter" Rippka et al. 1974 nom. inval. (prokaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  R. Rippka et al., 1974, nom. prok. nov., nom. praeinit.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Rippka, R., Waterbury, J. & Cohen-Bazire, G. 1974. Arch. Microbiol. 100: 435 ("nov. gen.").
Original use as a prokaryotic name:  op. cit.: 435 ("holotype strain, 7421"). [implicit]
Description/Diagnosis in English:  loc. cit.

Validation

Validated name: Gloeobacter violaceus Rippka et al. 1974 nom. inval. Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1974: 435 ("description as for genus"). [new]

Etymology

Derived name: Gloeobacteria (Subdivision) Cavalier-Smith 2002 stat. inval. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002a: tbl. 1 (p. 10: "the only known genus"). [new]
Derived name: Gloeobacteria (Class) Cavalier-Smith 2002 nom. rej. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002a: tbl. 1 (p. 10: "the only known genus"). [new]

Attributes

Prokaryotic name, by original use (: nom. prok. nov.) [ICNB/ICNP (>1947)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 2 Dec 2025.
Prokaryotic name (: nom. prok.) [ICNB/ICNP] Ref: D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.), 2001. In G.M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) 1: 502 (M. Herdman, R.W. Castenholz & R. Rippka: "Form-genus ... Rippka, Waterbury and Cohen-Bazire 1974").
Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)] Ref: G.M. Garrity et al. 2007. Taxon. Outl. Bacteria Archaea (v. 7.7, pt. 2): 44; LPSN[29 Nov 2025].
Pre-starting-point name (nom. inval.[: praeinit.]) [ICSB, 2000: Minute 7(3) (Cyanobacteria(ICNP), <1999)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 27 Nov 2025.

Types

Type of: Gloeobacterales (Order) Cavalier-Smith 2002 nom. inval., nom. rej. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002a: tbl. 1 (p. 10). [new]
Type, by monotypy: Gloeobacter violaceus Rippka et al. 1974 nom. inval. Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1974: 435 ("One species"). [new]

Variants

Validly published name: Gloeobacter (Genus) Rippka et al. 2013 Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [17 Jan 2026] ("homotypic").
Name in subsequent code of nomenclature: Gloeobacter (Genus) Rippka, Waterbury & Cohen-Baz. (1974), nom. inval. Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present: [<28 Aug 2021].
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