Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 Soo R.M. Woodcroft B.J. Parks D.H. Tyson G.W. Hugenholtz P. Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacterium Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus 2015 3 e968 PeerJ PeerJ 2167-8359 10.7717/peerj.968 26038723 List Editor Validation List no. 5. Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. 1980 30 4 676 677 International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology Int J Syst Bacteriol 0020-7713 10.1099/00207713-30-4-676 The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) was able to successfully extract DNA from one of the 32 year-old lyophilised co-cultures and sequence the 16S rRNA gene of V. chlorellavorus (Genbank acc. no. HM038000). Comparative analyses of this sequence indicate that V. chlorellavorus is actually a member of the phylum Cyanobacteria rather than the Proteobacteria according to the Greengenes (McDonald et al., 2012) and Silva (Quast et al., 2013) taxonomies.