Name: "Candidatus Eremiobacteriia" Ward et al. 2019

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: E.re.mi.o.bac.te.ri’i.a. N.L. neut. n. Eremiobacterium, a (yet to be described) Candidatus genus; from Gr. fem. n. erêmia, desert; from N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Eremiobacteriia, the Eremiobacterium 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: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Eremiobacteria" corrig. Ward et al. 2019

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Eremiobacteriia" Yabe et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Eremiobacteria" corrig. Ward et al. 2019	corrected spelling of name, 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.
  • 🧒 Yabe et al. (2022) assigned the order "Candidatus Baltobacterales" Ward et al. 2019 to this class. Publication: Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM. Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph. ISME Commun 2022; 2:120.
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Candidatus Eremiobacteria" corrig. Ward et al. 2019. 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.
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Candidatus Eremiobacteriia" Yabe et al. 2022.

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