Proteobacteria
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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
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – proteobacteria.
Usage notes
Now superseded by the term Pseudomonadota in the LPSN and NCBI taxonomies.
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 List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
- Proteobacteria at World Register of Marine Species
- Proteobacteria at the Tree of Life Web Project
- 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
