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Bacteria

Taxonomy

Bacteria was named by Woese et al. (1990). It is extant.

It was assigned to Life by Woese et al. (1990) and Taylor et al. (2008); and to Prokaryota by Ruggiero et al. (2015).

Subtaxa

Ameliaphycus, Archaeorestis, Archaeosphaeroides, Brachybaculites, Cladothricinium, Cladothryx, Coleobacter, Cyanobacteria (syn. Cyanophyta), Eoastrion, Eobacterium, Ferrimonilis, Geasterites, Micrococcus, Negibacteria, Posibacteria, Ramacia, Schizophyta, Taeniatum

Sister taxa

Negibacteria, Posibacteria

Synonyms

Eubacteria is a kingdom. It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Bacteria by Woese et al. (1990) and Ruggiero et al. (2015).

It was assigned to Prokarya by Margulis (1996); and to Bacteria by Taylor et al. (2008).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1990	Bacteria Woese et al. p. 4578
1996	Eubacteria Margulis p. 1074
2008	Bacteria Taylor et al. p. 1027
2008	Eubacteria Taylor et al. p. 1027
2015	Bacteria Ruggiero et al. p. 33

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Rank	Name	Author
—	Life
—	Prokaryota

Rank	Name	Author
—	Bacteria
—	Bacteria

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Unr. Bacteria Woese et al. 1990

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G. †Ameliaphycus Muir 1976

†Ameliaphycus croxfordii Muir 1976

G. †Archaeorestis Barghoorn 1965

†Archaeorestis schreiberensis Barghoorn 1965

G. †Archaeosphaeroides Schopf and Barghoorn 1967

†Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis Schopf and Barghoorn 1967

†Archaeosphaeroides pilbarensis Schopf 1983

G. †Brachybaculites Gruess 1928

†Brachybaculites semelnodatus Gruess 1928

G. †Cladothricinium Zalessky 1915

†Cladothricinium pancratovi Zalessky 1915

G. †Cladothryx Renault 1899

†Cladothryx martyi Renault 1899

G. †Coleobacter Oehler 1977

†Coleobacter primus Oehler 1977

G. †Eoastrion Barghoorn 1965

†Eoastrion bifurcatum Barghoorn 1965

†Eoastrion simplex Barghoorn 1965

G. †Eobacterium Barghoorn and Schopf 1966

†Eobacterium isolatum Barghoorn and Schopf 1966

G. †Ferrimonilis Oehler 1977

†Ferrimonilis variabile Oehler 1977

G. †Geasterites Pia 1927

†Geasterites florissantensis Cockerell 1927

G. †Micrococcus Renault 1895

†Micrococcus guignardi Renault 1895

Unr. Negibacteria

Ph. Deinococcus

Invalid names: Hadobacteria [synonym]

Invalid names: Acidobacteria [empty], Actinobacteria [empty], Aquifacae [empty], Armatimonadetes [empty], Bacteroidetes [empty], Caldiserica [empty], Chlamydiae [empty], Chlorobacteria [empty], Chlorobi [empty], Chloroflexi [empty], Chrysiogenetes Ruggiero et al. 2015 [empty], Deferribacteres [empty], Dictyoglomi [empty], Elusimicrobia [empty], Fibrobacteres [empty], Firmicutes [empty], Fusobacteria [empty], Gemmatimonadetes [empty], Lentisphaerae [empty], Nitrospira [empty], Planctomycetes [empty], Proteobacteria [empty], Spriochaetae [empty], Synergistetes [empty], Tenericutes [empty], Thermodesulfobacteria [empty], Thermotogae [empty], Verrocomicrobia [empty]

G. †Ramacia Oehler 1977

†Ramacia carpenteriana Oehler 1977

Ph. Schizophyta

G. †Nodularites Maslov 1956

†Nodularites cylindricus Maslov 1956

G. †Taeniatum Sin 1962

Invalid names: Eubacteria [synonym], Posibacteria [empty]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
C. R. Woese et al. 1990	Domain Bacteria [Greek noun f3aKr'pov (small rod or staff)]: cels prokaryotic; membrane lipids predominantly diacyl glycerol diesters; ribosomes containing a (eu)bacterial type of rRNA.