Name: "Candidatus Baltobacter" Ward et al. 2019

Category: Genus

Proposed as: 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: masculine (stem: Baltobacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Baltobacter phototrophicus" 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: preferred name (not 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	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Vulcanimicrobiaceae Yabe et al. 2024

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 10511