Entity:

Authorship

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

Validation

Validating description/diagnosis

Gloeobacter (Genus) Rippka et al. 1974 nom. inval.

Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1974: 435 ("description as for genus"). [new]

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: LPSN, 2020-present. LPSN: [27 Nov 2025]. [implicit]
Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)]				Ref: LPSN, 2020-present. LPSN: [27 Nov 2025].
Pre-starting-point name (nom. inval.[: praeinit.]) [ICNP, 2022: Rules 23a Note 3, 24a (<1980)]				Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 27 Nov 2025.

Type, by monotypy, of

Gloeobacter (Genus) Rippka et al. 1974 nom. inval.

Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1974: 435 ("One species"). [new]

Name in subsequent code of nomenclature

Gloeobacter violaceus Rippka, Waterbury & Cohen-Baz. (1974), nom. inval.

Ref: R. Rippka et al., 1974: 435; 27 Nov 2025. [inferred]