Posibacteria

Translingual

Etymology

From positive + Bacteria.

Proper noun

Posibacteria

A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Bacteria – gram-positive bacteria, probably paraphyletic.

Usage notes

A 2015 circumscription^[1] attempts to be monophyletic.

Hypernyms

(subkingdom): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom^[1]

Hyponyms

(subkingdom): Actinomtcetota (syn. Actinobacteria), Chloroflexota (syn. Chloroflexi, Chlorobacteria), Bacillota (syn. Firmicutes), Mycoplasmatota (syn. Tenericutes) - phyla^[1]

Coordinate terms

(subkingdom): Negibacteria^[1]

References

Gram-positive bacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bacteria (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Posibacteria at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI

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