Name: "Candidatus Auribacterota" Williams et al. 2022
Category: Phylum
Proposed as: Candidatus
Etymology:Au.ri.bac.te.ro’ta.N.L. masc. n.Auribacter, aCandidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Auribacterota, the Candidatus Auribacter phylum
Original publication:
Williams TJ, Allen MA, Panwar P, Cavicchioli R. Into the darkness: the ecologies of novel 'microbial dark matter' phyla in an Antarctic lake. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:2576-2603. 🇦🇺
Nomenclatural status:
not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status:
not pro-validly published
Taxonomic status:
preferred name (not pro-correct name)
Notes:
🧒 Williams et al. (2022) assigned the order "Candidatus Auribacterales" Williams et al. 2022 to this phylum.Publication:
Williams TJ, Allen MA, Panwar P, Cavicchioli R. Into the darkness: the ecologies of novel 'microbial dark matter' phyla in an Antarctic lake. Environ Microbiol 2022; 24:2576-2603. 🇦🇺
🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).
🧍 Williams et al. (2022) attributed this phylum name to Momper et al. (2017) but these authors did not propose it.Publication:
Momper L, Jungbluth SP, Lee MD, Amend JP. Energy and carbon metabolisms in a deep terrestrial subsurface fluid microbial community. ISME J 2017; 11:2319-2333. 🇺🇸
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: 4