Name: "Acidobacteria" Thrash and Coates 2010

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. pl. n. Acidobacteriales, type order of the phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Acidobacteria, the phylum of Acidobacteriales (nominative plural of Acidobacterium)

Gender: neuter

Type class: "Acidobacteriae" Oren et al. 2015

Original publication: Thrash JC, Coates JD. Phylum XVII. Acidobacteria phyl. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 725.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Acidobacteriota Thrash and Coates 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Aminicenantes" Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Acidobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Aminicenantota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Acidobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Acidobacteriota Thrash and Coates 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471-563.
  • 🧕 Luketa (2012) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Hydrobacterida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • 🧒 Dedysh and Yilmaz (2018) assigned the class Thermoanaerobaculia Dedysh and Yilmaz 2018 to this phylum. Publication: Dedysh SN, Yilmaz P. Refining the taxonomic structure of the phylum Acidobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3796-3806.
  • 🧒 Dedysh and Yilmaz (2018) assigned the class Vicinamibacteria Dedysh and Yilmaz 2018 to this phylum. Publication: Dedysh SN, Yilmaz P. Refining the taxonomic structure of the phylum Acidobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3796-3806.
  • 🧒 Flieder et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Polarisedimenticolia" Flieder et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Flieder M, Buongiorno J, Herbold CW, Hausmann B, Rattei T, Lloyd KG, Loy A, Wasmund K. Novel taxa of Acidobacteriota implicated in seafloor sulfur cycling. ISME J 2021; 15:3159-3180.
  • 🧒 Hausmann et al. (2018) assigned the genus "Candidatus Sulfuripaludibacter" corrig. Hausmann et al. 2018 to this phylum. Publication: Hausmann B, Pelikan C, Herbold CW, Kostlbacher S, Albertsen M, Eichorst SA, Glavina Del Rio T, Huemer M, Nielsen PH, Rattei T, et al. Peatland Acidobacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism. ISME J 2018; 12:1729-1742.
  • 🧒 Hausmann et al. (2018) assigned the genus "Candidatus Sulfuritelmatobacter" corrig. Hausmann et al. 2018 to this phylum. Publication: Hausmann B, Pelikan C, Herbold CW, Kostlbacher S, Albertsen M, Eichorst SA, Glavina Del Rio T, Huemer M, Nielsen PH, Rattei T, et al. Peatland Acidobacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism. ISME J 2018; 12:1729-1742.
  • 🧒 Hausmann et al. (2018) assigned the genus "Candidatus Sulfuritelmatomonas" corrig. Hausmann et al. 2018 to this phylum. Publication: Hausmann B, Pelikan C, Herbold CW, Kostlbacher S, Albertsen M, Eichorst SA, Glavina Del Rio T, Huemer M, Nielsen PH, Rattei T, et al. Peatland Acidobacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism. ISME J 2018; 12:1729-1742.
  • 🧒 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the class "Acidobacteriia" Thrash and Coates 2010 to this phylum. Publication: Thrash JC, Coates JD. Class I. Acidobacteriia Cavalier-Smith 2002, 12 VP emend. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 4 (The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes), Springer, New York, 2010, p. 727.
  • 🧒 Oshkin et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Solibacter" Sabree et al. 2006 to this phylum. Publication: Oshkin IY, Kulichevskaya IS, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Rakitin AL, Ravin NV, Dedysh SN. Granulicella sibirica sp. nov., a psychrotolerant acidobacterium isolated from an organic soil layer in forested tundra, West Siberia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1195-1201.
  • 🧒 Pascual et al. (2015) assigned the class Blastocatellia Pascual et al. 2016 to this phylum. Publication: Pascual J, Wust PK, Geppert A, Foesel BU, Huber KJ, Overmann J. Novel isolates double the number of chemotrophic species and allow the first description of higher taxa in Acidobacteria subdivision 4. Syst Appl Microbiol 2015; 38:534-544.
  • 🚃 The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Acidobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acdiobacteria"; "Acedobacteria"; "Acidbacteria"; "Acidiobacteria"; "Acidobacttria"; "Acidobateria"; "Acidobbacteria"; "Acidsbacteria"; "Acintobacteria".
  • 🧍 The formation of this name was discussed in Judicial Opinion 129. Publication: Arahal et al. Judicial Opinion No. 129. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6064.
  • 🧍 In the effective publication, the type order of the phylum is cited as Acidobacteriales ord. nov. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016.

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