Family "Candidatus Caldatribacteriaceae"

Name: "Candidatus Caldatribacteriaceae" Murray et al. 2020

Category, proposed as: family, Candidatus

Etymology: Cal.da.tri.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Caldatribacteriaceae, the Caldatribacterium family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kal-da-tri-bak-te-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Caldatribacterium" Dodsworth et al. 2013

Original publication: Murray AE, Freudenstein J, Gribaldo S, Hatzenpichler R, Hugenholtz P, Kampfer P, Konstantinidis KT, Lane CE, Papke RT, Parks DH, et al. Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria. Nat Microbiol 2020; 5:987-994. 🇺🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hedlund et al. (2026) assigned this family to the class Atribacteria Katayama et al. 2021. Publication: Hedlund BP, Alvarado T, Sushenko NS, Murphy TR, Torres A, Blocker AM, Lai D, Mayali X, Seymour CO, Muok A, et al. Isolation of genome-predicted Caldatribacterium (Atribacterota) reveals pervasive microbial cultivation problem due to folate precipitation. Nat Commun 2026; 0:0. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Hedlund et al. (2026) assigned this family to the phylum Atribacterota Katayama et al. 2021. Publication: Hedlund BP, Alvarado T, Sushenko NS, Murphy TR, Torres A, Blocker AM, Lai D, Mayali X, Seymour CO, Muok A, et al. Isolation of genome-predicted Caldatribacterium (Atribacterota) reveals pervasive microbial cultivation problem due to folate precipitation. Nat Commun 2026; 0:0. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Murray et al. (2020) assigned this family to the phylum "Candidatus Atribacterota" corrig. Dodsworth et al. 2013. Publication: Murray AE, Freudenstein J, Gribaldo S, Hatzenpichler R, Hugenholtz P, Kampfer P, Konstantinidis KT, Lane CE, Papke RT, Parks DH, et al. Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria. Nat Microbiol 2020; 5:987-994. 🇺🇸
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Caldatribacteriaceae" Hedlund et al. 2026.
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Caldatribacterium" Dodsworth et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Profundicultor" Jiao et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Sordicultor" Jiao et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Atribacterales Katayama et al. 2021

Assigned by: Hedlund BP, Alvarado T, Sushenko NS, Murphy TR, Torres A, Blocker AM, Lai D, Mayali X, Seymour CO, Muok A, et al. Isolation of genome-predicted Caldatribacterium (Atribacterota) reveals pervasive microbial cultivation problem due to folate precipitation. Nat Commun 2026; 0:0. 🇺🇸

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