Name: "Aquificota" Whitman et al. 2018

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.fi.co’ta. N.L. neut. pl. n. Aquificota, the phylum of the class Aquificae

Gender: neuter

Type class: Aquificae Reysenbach 2002

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Aquificota Reysenbach 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Thermosulfidibacterota Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Aquificae" Reysenbach 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Aquificaeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Aquithermota" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Aquificota Reysenbach 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🛺 The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Aquificota Reysenbach 2021. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
  • 🚃 The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Aquificae" Reysenbach 2001. Publication: Gupta RS, Lali R. Molecular signatures for the phylum Aquificae and its different clades: proposal for division of the phylum Aquificae into the emended order Aquificales, containing the families Aquificaceae and Hydrogenothermaceae, and a new order Desulfurobacteriales ord. nov., containing the family Desulfurobacteriaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:349-368.

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Record number: 7686