ANOTHER VIEW ON THE ROLE OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS IN TAXONOMY OF OXYGENIC-PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA - PROPOSED REJECTION OF THE ORDER PROCHLORALES FLORENZANO, BALLONI, AND MATERASSI 1986 (EMEND. BURGER-WIERSMA, STAL, AND MUR 1989), THE FAMILY PROCHLORACEAE FLORENZANO, BALLONI, ANDMATERASSI 1986, AND THE FAMILY PROCHLOROTRICHACEAE BURGER-WIERSMA, STAL, AND MUR 1989
Av. Pinevich et al., ANOTHER VIEW ON THE ROLE OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS IN TAXONOMY OF OXYGENIC-PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA - PROPOSED REJECTION OF THE ORDER PROCHLORALES FLORENZANO, BALLONI, AND MATERASSI 1986 (EMEND. BURGER-WIERSMA, STAL, AND MUR 1989), THE FAMILY PROCHLORACEAE FLORENZANO, BALLONI, ANDMATERASSI 1986, AND THE FAMILY PROCHLOROTRICHACEAE BURGER-WIERSMA, STAL, AND MUR 1989, International journal of systematic bacteriology, 47(4), 1997, pp. 1264-1267
We propose that the order Prochlorales Florenzano, Balloni, and Matera
ssi 1986 (emend, Burger-Wiersma, Stal, and Mur 1959), the family Proch
loraceae Florenzano, Balloni, and Materassi 1986, and the family Proch
lorotrichaceae Burger-Wiersma, Stal, and Mur 1989, validly published i
n the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology under the rules
of the Bacteriological Code, be rejected because of the imperfection
of ordinal diagnosis. The oxgenic-phototrophic prokaryotes involved ar
e proposed to he incorporated under their validly published names into
the orders Chroococcales and Oscillatoriales of the ''Cyanobacteria''
group, Correspondingly, the latter is proposed to be upgraded to equa
l ''Oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria'' (Section 19 in Bergey's Manual)
.