Proteobacteria

See also: proteobacteria

Translingual

Etymology

proteo- (“after Proteus (“a sea god who could change his shape at will”)”) +‎ bacteria - proposed in 1988, Stackebrandt (E.), Murray (R.G.E.) and Trüper (H.G.) Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1988, 38, 321-325

Proper noun

Proteobacteria

1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – proteobacteria.

Usage notes

Now superseded by the term Pseudomonadota in the NCBI Taxonomy.

Synonyms

• (phylum): Pseudomonadota

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria, Epsilonproteobacteria, Zetaproteobacteria - classes

References

• Proteobacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Proteobacteria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Proteobacteria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Proteobacteria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Proteobacteria at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Proteobacteria at Encyclopedia of Life
• Proteobacteria at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
• Proteobacteria at World Register of Marine Species
• Proteobacteria at the Tree of Life Web Project
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