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Taxon: Phylum "Cyanobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998 nom. inval. (prokaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998, nom. inval.
Unavailable original name & spelling:  Stanier, R.Y. 1974. In R.E. Buchanan & N.E. Gibbons (eds.), Bergey's Man. Determ. Bacteriol. (ed. 8): 22. [division, nom. vernac.]; 28 Nov 2025. [inferred]
Original name, rank & spelling:  Cavalier-Smith, T. 1998. Biol. Rev. 73: tbl. 2 (p. 218: "Stanier 1973").
Description/Diagnosis in English:  op. cit.: tbl. 2 (p. 218: "oxygenic photosynthesizers with chlorophyll a").
Incorrect (erroneous) authorship:  Woese, C.R., Stackebrandt, E., Macke, T.J. & Fox, G.E. 1985. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 6 (2): 149 ("cyanobacteria", ""phylum""). [nom. vernac.].

Attributes

Prokaryotic name, by original use (: nom. prok. nov.) [ICNB/ICNP (>1947)] Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998. Biol. Rev. 73: tbl. 2 (p. 219 footnote ‡ŒŒ: "All the phyla here should be treated as divisions for formal bacterial nomenclature", "Bacterial Code of Nomenclature"). [new]
Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 28 Nov 2025.

Variants

Not validly published name: Cyanobacteria (Phylum) (ex Stanier 1974) Cavalier-Smith 2002 stat. inval. Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 2002a: tbl. 1 (p. 10). [new] [implicit]
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