Name: "Epsilonbacteraeota" Waite et al. 2017

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Ep.si.lon.bac.ter.ae.o’ta. Gr. neut. n. epsilon, name of the fifth letter of Greek alphabet (indeclinable); Gr. neut. n. baktêria, staff, cane; N.L. neut. pl. n. suff. -aeota, provisional ending to denote a phylum, now replaced by -ota; N.L. neut. pl. n. Epsilonbacteraeota, the phylum of bacteria sharing a common ancestry and possessing ribosomal gene sequence and protein marker similarity to those of the members of the classes Campylobacteria and Desulfurellia [incorrectly formed: implied type unavailable]

Gender: neuter

Type class: "Campylobacteria" Waite et al. 2017

Original publication: Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, et al. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front Microbiol 2017; 8:682.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Proteobacteria" Gray and Herwig 1996	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Proteobacterota" Goloshchapov et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Desulfobacterota" Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Neomarinimicrobiota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Myxococcota Waite et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Alphaproteobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Campylobacterota Waite et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Marinimicrobia" Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Alphaproteobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Myxococcota" Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Bdellovibrionota" Waite et al. 2020	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Campylobacterota" Waite et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the class Desulfurellia Waite et al. 2020 to this phylum. Publication: Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, et al. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front Microbiol 2017; 8:682.
  • 🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the order Nautiliales Miroshnichenko et al. 2004 to this phylum. Publication: Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, et al. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front Microbiol 2017; 8:682.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Epsilonbateraeota".

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