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Taxon: Phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001 stat. inval. (prokaryote)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  (N.E. Gibbons & R.G.E. Murray, 1978/1980) G.M. Garrity & J.G. Holt, in D.R. Boone et al., eds., 2001, nom. descript., stat. praeinit.
Original name:  Gibbons, N.E. & Murray, R.G.E. 1978. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 28 (1): 5.
Subsequent rank (orig. spell.):  Garrity, G.M. & Holt, J.G. 2001a. In D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.), in G.M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) 1: 133 ("phy. nov. Gibbons and Murray 1978,AL emend. Garrity and Holt."), 161 ("phy. nov."). [working description].
Subsequent publication:  Boone, D.R. & Castenholz, R.W. (eds.) 2001. In G.M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) 1: 625 ("Gibbons and Murray 1978, 5AL emend. Garrity and Holt"). [nom. nud.].

Attributes

Effectively, but not validly, published name (nom. inval.) [ICNP, 2019: Rule 25, App. 7 (IJSEM)] Ref: LPSN, 2020-present. LPSN: [2 Jan 2026].
Pre-starting-point rank (stat. inval.[: praeinit.]) [ICNP, 2022: p. 1, Rules 5b, 8 (phylum, <2021)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 2 Jan 2026.
Emendation (nom. emend.) [ICZN, 1999: Art. 33.2.1] Ref: G.M. Garrity & J.G. Holt, 2001a. In D.R. Boone & R.W. Castenholz (eds.), in G.M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's Man. Syst. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) 1: 133 ("emend. Garrity and Holt."). [new]
Descriptive name ([nom. illeg.]: nom. descript.) [ICNP, 2025: Rule 8; Judicial Opinion 129: 3-4, 7 (>order)] Ref: D.R. Arahal et al. 2024. Judicial Opinion 129: 7, tbl. 2 (p. 6: "DN").

Variants

Validly published name: Bacillota (Phylum) Gibbons and Murray 2021 Ref: D.R. Arahal et al., 2024: tbl. 2 (p. 6).
Former rank: Firmicutes (Division) corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) nom. rej.

Synonyms

Accepted name (objective): Bacillota (Phylum) Gibbons and Murray 2021 Ref: LPSN, 2020-present: [2 Jan 2026] ("homotypic").
Synonymous name: Endobacteria (Infraphylum) T. Cavalier-Smith 1998
In: Teichobacteria (Subphylum) Cavalier-Smith 1998 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 219. [new]
Including: Endospora (Phylum)
Including: fermenting bacteria (Phylum)
Including: Tenericutes (Phylum) (Murray 1984) Brown 2010 Ref: D.H. Parks et al., 2017: fig. 2.
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