Name: "Candidatus Caldipriscus" Colman et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cal.di.pris’cus. L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; L. masc. adj. priscus, ancient or primitive; N.L. masc. n. Caldipriscus, ancient thermophile

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Caldiprisc-), kal-di-PRIS-kus

Type species: "Candidatus Caldipriscus primus" Colman et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective publication: Colman DR, Jay ZJ, Inskeep WP, Jennings Rd, Maas KR, Rusch DB, Takacs-Vesbach CD. Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:304. 🇺🇸

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 phylum "Candidatus Pyropristinus" Colman et al. 2016. Publication: Colman DR, Jay ZJ, Inskeep WP, Jennings Rd, Maas KR, Rusch DB, Takacs-Vesbach CD. Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:304. 🇺🇸
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Caldipriscota" corrig. Colman et al. 2016. Publication: Colman DR, Jay ZJ, Inskeep WP, Jennings Rd, Maas KR, Rusch DB, Takacs-Vesbach CD. Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:304. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Colman et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Caldipriscota" corrig. Colman et al. 2016. Publication: Colman DR, Jay ZJ, Inskeep WP, Jennings Rd, Maas KR, Rusch DB, Takacs-Vesbach CD. Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:304. 🇺🇸

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 Caldipriscus primus" Colman et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Caldifarciminaceae Mori et al. 2026

Assigned by: Mori K, Hidaka K, Tamazawa S, Hosoyama A, Tamaki H, Kakegawa T, Hanada S. Caldifarcimen microaerophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Caldifarciminota phyl. nov., formerly called candidate phylum WOR-3, description of Caldifarciminaceae fam. nov., Caldifarciminales ord. nov. and Caldifarciminia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7229. 🇯🇵

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