Phylum "Candidatus Babelota"

Name: "Candidatus Babelota" corrig. Yeoh et al. 2016

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ba.be.lo’ta. N.L. fem. n. Babela, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Babelota, the Candidatus Babela phylum

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Babela" Cohen et al. 2011

Original publication: Yeoh YK, Sekiguchi Y, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Comparative Genomics of Candidate Phylum TM6 Suggests That Parasitism Is Widespread and Ancestral in This Lineage. Mol Biol Evol 2016; 33:915-927.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. "Candidatus phylum list no. 1." Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus phyla. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Candidatus Dependentiae" Yeoh et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Notes:
- 🧒 Yeoh et al. (2016) assigned the order "Candidatus Babelales" corrig. Yeoh et al. 2016 to this phylum. Publication: Yeoh YK, Sekiguchi Y, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Comparative Genomics of Candidate Phylum TM6 Suggests That Parasitism Is Widespread and Ancestral in This Lineage. Mol Biol Evol 2016; 33:915-927.
- 🚃 The type genus of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Dependentiae". Publication: Cohen G, Hoffart L, La Scola B, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Ameba-associated Keratitis, France. Emerg Infect Dis 2011; 17:1306-1308.

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: 2

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Candidatus Babeliae" Yeoh et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
[Babelota, not assigned to class]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Bacteria Woese et al. 2024

Assigned by: Yeoh YK, Sekiguchi Y, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Comparative Genomics of Candidate Phylum TM6 Suggests That Parasitism Is Widespread and Ancestral in This Lineage. Mol Biol Evol 2016; 33:915-927.

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Phylum "Candidatus Babelota"