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Phylum "Epsilonbacteraeota"
Name: "Epsilonbacteraeota" Waite et al. 2017
Etymology: Ep.si.lon.bac.te.rae.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]
Pronunciation, gender: ep-si-lon-bak-te-ra͡e-O-ta, 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
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Proteobacteria" Garrity et al. 2005 heterotypic synonym, not validly published "Proteobacteria" Gray and Herwig 1996 heterotypic synonym, not validly published "Bdellovibrionota" Waite et al. 2020 heterotypic synonym, not validly published Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Myxococcota Waite et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP "Myxococcota" Waite et al. 2020 heterotypic synonym, not validly published "Campylobacterota" Waite et al. 2018 homotypic synonym, not validly published "Alphaproteobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018 heterotypic synonym, not validly published "Alphaproteobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015 heterotypic synonym, not validly published Campylobacterota Waite et al. 2021 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Bdellovibrionota Waite et al. 2021 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
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🧒 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.
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🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the family "Thiovulaceae" Waite et al. 2017 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.
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🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the family Arcobacteraceae 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.
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🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the family Sulfurospirillaceae 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.
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🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the family Sulfurovaceae 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.
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🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the family Campylobacteraceae Vandamme and De Ley 1991 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.
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🧒 Waite et al. (2017) assigned the family Helicobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006 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.
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🧒 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.
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🛺 The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Pseudomonadota Garrity et al. 2021.
Publication:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Epsilobacteraeota"; "Epsilonbateraeota".
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🧒 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.
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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