Name: "Candidatus Bipolaricaulota" Hao et al. 2018

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Bi.po.la.ri.cau.lo’ta. N.L. masc. n. Bipolaricaulis, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Bipolaricaulota, the Candidatus Bipolaricaulis phylum

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: bi-po-la-ri-ka͡u-LO-ta, neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Bipolaricaulis" Hao et al. 2018

Effective publication: Hao L, McIlroy SJ, Kirkegaard RH, Karst SM, Fernando WEY, Aslan H, Meyer RL, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, Dueholm MS. Novel prosthecate bacteria from the candidate phylum Acetothermia. ISME J 2018; 12:2225-2237. 🇩🇰

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Candidatus list no. 5. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hao et al. (2018) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Hao L, McIlroy SJ, Kirkegaard RH, Karst SM, Fernando WEY, Aslan H, Meyer RL, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, Dueholm MS. Novel prosthecate bacteria from the candidate phylum Acetothermia. ISME J 2018; 12:2225-2237. 🇩🇰
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the order "Candidatus Bipolaricaulales" Chuvochina et al. 2023 to this phylum. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Hao et al. (2018) assigned the genus "Candidatus Acetothermum" Takami et al. 2012 to this phylum. Publication: Hao L, McIlroy SJ, Kirkegaard RH, Karst SM, Fernando WEY, Aslan H, Meyer RL, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, Dueholm MS. Novel prosthecate bacteria from the candidate phylum Acetothermia. ISME J 2018; 12:2225-2237. 🇩🇰
  • 🧒 Kadnikov et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Acetothermum" Takami et al. 2012 to this phylum. Publication: Kadnikov VV, Mardanov AV, Beletsky AV, Frank YA, et al. Complete genome sequence of an uncultured bacterium of the candidate phylum Bipolaricaulota. Microbiology 2019; 88:461-468. 🇷🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bipoalricaulota"; "Bipolauricaulota".

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Bipolaricaulia" Chuvochina et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Thermotogati Battistuzzi and Hedges 2024

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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