Phylum Desulfobacterota

Name: Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2023

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: De.sul.fo.bac.te.ro’ta. N.L. masc. n. Desulfobacter, type genus of the phylum; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Desulfobacterota, phylum of the genus Desulfobacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: de-sul-fo-bak-te-RO-ta, neuter

Type genus: Desulfobacter Widdel 1981

Valid publication: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6024. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6158.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Thermodesulfobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2021

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Thermodesulfobacteria" Garrity and Holt 2001	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Desulfobacterota" Waite et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
"Desulfovibriota" Soltysova et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
"Desulfovibrionota" corrig. Soltysova et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Deferrisomatota" Murphy et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Thermodesulfobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
"Thermodesulfobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
Thermodesulfobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 🧕 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned this phylum to the domain Bacteria Woese et al. 2024. Publication: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪
- 🧕 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned this phylum to the kingdom Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024. Publication: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪
- 🧒 Cui et al. (2024) assigned the genus "Qingjiangonema" Cui et al. 2024 to this phylum. Publication: Cui L, Zhu K, Li R, Chang C, Wu L, Liu W, Fu D, Liu P, Qiu H, Tang G, et al. The Cambrian microfossil Qingjiangonema reveals the co-evolution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and the oxygenation of Earth's surface. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2024; 69:1486-1494. 🇨🇳
- 🧒 Göker and Oren (2023) assigned the genus Desulfobacter Widdel 1981 to this phylum. Publication: Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of four additional phylum names. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6024. 🇩🇪
- 🧒 Slobodkina et al. (2025) assigned the class "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculia" Slobodkina et al. 2025 to this phylum. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Delsulfobacterota"; "Desulfurbacterota".
- ❗ Desulfobacterota is the correct name instead if this phylum is regarded as a separate phylum (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another phylum whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Waite et al.) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Göker and Oren).

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪

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