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

Correct name: Aquificota Reysenbach 2021

• Synonyms:

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

• 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.
  • This taxon name is a homonym of Aquificota Reysenbach 2021.

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Record number: 7686