Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes.

After the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) had voted to include the rank of phylum in the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), and following publication of the decision in the IJSEM, we here present names and formal descriptions of 42 phyla to effect valid publication of their names, based on genera as the nomenclatural types.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

• Publication date

  2021-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.005056PMID 34694987
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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