Genus "Candidatus Baltobacter"

Name: "Candidatus Baltobacter" Ward et al. 2019

Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus

Etymology: Bal.to.bac’ter. N.L. fem. n. balte, swamp; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Baltobacter, a rod from a swamp

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Baltobacter-), bal-to-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Baltobacter phototrophicus" Ward et al. 2019

Effective 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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Baltobacteraceae" 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Baltobacterales" 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Ward et al. (2019) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Baltobacteraceae" 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Ward et al. (2019) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Baltobacterales" 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Yabe et al. (2022) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Baltobacterales" Ward et al. 2019. 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. 🇯🇵

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Baltobacter phototrophicus" Ward et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Vulcanimicrobiaceae Yabe et al. 2024

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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