Posibacteria

Translingual

Etymology

From positive + Bacteria.

Proper noun

Posibacteria

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

Usage notes

A 2015 circumscription attempts to be monophyletic.

Hypernyms

(subkingdom): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom

Hyponyms

(subkingdom): Actinobaceria, Chloroflexi (= Chlorobacteria), Firmicutes, Tenericutes - phyla

Coordinate terms

(subkingdom): Negibacteria

References

Gram-positive bacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bacteria (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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