Translingual

Proper noun

Negibacteria

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

Usage notes

• A 2015 circumscription attempts to be monophyletic.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (subkingdom): Acidobacteria, Aquificae, Armatimonadetes, Bacteroidetes, Caldiserica, Chlamydiae, Chlorobi, Chrysiogenetes, Cyanobacteria (syn. Cyanophyta), Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-Thermus (syn. Hadobacteria), Dictyoglomi, Elusimicrobia, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Nitrospira, Planctomycetes, Proteobacteria, Spirochaetae, Synergistetes, Thermodesulfobacteria, Thermotogae, Verrucomicrobia - phyla

Coordinate terms

• (subkingdom): Posibacteria

See also

• Gracilicutes
• diderm

References

• 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