Name: "Candidatus Eremiobacteria" corrig. Ward et al. 2019

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: E.re.mi.o.bac.te.ri’a. N.L. masc. n. Eremiobacter, a Candidatus genus; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Eremiobacteria, the Eremiobacter class

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Candidatus Eremiobacterales" Ward et al. 2019

Original publication: Ward LM, Cardona T, Holland-Moritz H. Evolutionary Implications of Anoxygenic Phototrophy in the Bacterial Phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota (WPS-2). Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1658.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Vulcanimicrobiia Yabe et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Eremiobacteriia" Ward et al. 2019	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Eremiobacteriia" Yabe et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Vulcanimicrobiia Yabe et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ward et al. (2019) assigned this class to the phylum "Candidatus Eremiobacterota" corrig. Ji et al. 2017. Publication: Ward LM, Cardona T, Holland-Moritz H. Evolutionary Implications of Anoxygenic Phototrophy in the Bacterial Phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota (WPS-2). Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1658.
  • 🧒 Ward et al. (2019) assigned the order "Candidatus Baltobacterales" Ward et al. 2019 to this class. Publication: Ward LM, Cardona T, Holland-Moritz H. Evolutionary Implications of Anoxygenic Phototrophy in the Bacterial Phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota (WPS-2). Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1658.
  • 🧒 Ward et al. (2019) assigned the order "Candidatus Eremiobacterales" Ward et al. 2019 to this class. Publication: Ward LM, Cardona T, Holland-Moritz H. Evolutionary Implications of Anoxygenic Phototrophy in the Bacterial Phylum Candidatus Eremiobacterota (WPS-2). Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1658.
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Vulcanimicrobiia Yabe et al. 2024. Publication: Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM. Correction: Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph. ISME Commun 2023; 3:102.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Erimiobacteria".
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Ji M, Williams TJ, Montgomery K, Wong HL, Zaugg J, Berengut JF, Bissett A, Chuvochina M, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Candidatus Eremiobacterota, a metabolically and phylogenetically diverse terrestrial phylum with acid-tolerant adaptations. ISME J 2021; 15:2692-2707.

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