Name: "Candidatus Caldatribacterium" Dodsworth et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cald.atri.bac.te’ri.um. L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; L. adj. ater -tra -trum, black; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod or staff; N.L. neut. n. Caldatribacterium, refers to a rod-shaped bacterium from a hot environment, where ‘black’ or ‘dark’ references both microbial ‘dark matter’ and the dark, anaerobic environments where the lineage is found

Gender: neuter (stem: Caldatribacteri-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Dodsworth JA, Blainey PC, Murugapiran SK, Swingley WD, Ross CA, Tringe SG, Chain PS, Scholz MB, Lo CC, Raymond J, et al. Single-cell and metagenomic analyses indicate a fermentative and saccharolytic lifestyle for members of the OP9 lineage. Nat Commun 2013; 4:1854.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • Rinke et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Atribacteria" Dodsworth et al. 2013. Publication: Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Caldiatribacterium".

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 californiense" corrig. Dodsworth et al. 2013	not validly published
    "Candidatus Caldatribacterium californiensis" Dodsworth et al. 2013	inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Caldatribacterium saccharofermentans" Dodsworth et al. 2013	not validly published

Parent taxon: [Atribacterota, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 19167