Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 Universal Root Woese et al. 1990 Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990 Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021 Bdellovibrionia Waite et al. 2020 Bdellovibrionales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020 Bdellovibrionaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Waite et al. 2020 Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 Vampirovibrio Gromov and Mamkayeva 1980 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. Gromov B.V. Mamkayeva K.A. Proposal of a new genus Vampirovibrio for chlorellavorus bacteria previously assigned to Bdellovibrio 1980 49 1 165 167 Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 0026-3656 7392987 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 Gromov B.V. Mamkayeva K.A. Proposal of a new genus Vampirovibrio for chlorellavorus bacteria previously assigned to Bdellovibrio 1980 49 1 165 167 Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 0026-3656 7392987