NOMEN: Somobialia Rafinesque 1815 [Rafinesque C.S.. Analyse de la nature ou Tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. / Palerme 1815: 1–214.] BHL
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Rafinesque 1815): l'Empire Somobial
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING (Kluge 2020): Somobialia
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Rafinesque 1815): REGNE ANIMAL + RÈGNE VÉGÉTAL
OBJECTIVE SYNONYM: l'Empire Vital
JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Zotica Spinola 1850
= Bionta Walton 1930
= Cellulata Vorontsov 1987
= Biota Cavalier-Smith 1993
NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: absent, because rules of the ICZN are not spread on this taxon
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
COMMENT. Till the XIX century animals and plants were considered as two independent taxa of the same rank as the third taxon which comprised objects of inanimate nature; in the Linnaean classifications (Linnaeus 1735–1796) the empire Natura was divided into three kingdoms – Animalia (animals), Vegetabilia (plants) and Lapides (minerals). The concept of a taxon uniting all living organisms (i.e. animals and plants) was first expressed by Lamarck (1801–1822), however he did not give a formal name to this taxon. So the senior names for this taxon are objective synonyms Somobialia and Vitalia published in French spelling as «l'Empire Somobial» and «l'Empire Vital» in the book about system of nature by Rafinesque (1815).