Name: "Candidatus Eremiobacteraeota" Ji et al. 2017

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: E.re.mi.o.bac.ter.ae.o’ta. N.L. masc. n. Eremiobacter, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. pl. n. suff. -aeota, provisional ending to denote a phylum, now replaced by -ota; N.L. neut. pl. n. Eremiobacteraeota, the Eremiobacter phylum

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Ji M, Greening C, Vanwonterghem I, Carere CR, Bay SK, Steen JA, Montgomery K, Lines T, Beardall J, van Dorst J, et al. Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil. Nature 2017; 552:400-403.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • Ji et al. (2017) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Ji M, Greening C, Vanwonterghem I, Carere CR, Bay SK, Steen JA, Montgomery K, Lines T, Beardall J, van Dorst J, et al. Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil. Nature 2017; 552:400-403.
  • Ji et al. (2017) assigned the genus "Eremiobacter" to this phylum. Publication: Ji M, Greening C, Vanwonterghem I, Carere CR, Bay SK, Steen JA, Montgomery K, Lines T, Beardall J, van Dorst J, et al. Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil. Nature 2017; 552:400-403.
  • Ji et al. (2021) assigned the order "Eremiobacteriales" to this phylum. Publication: Ji M, Williams TJ, Montgomery K, Wong HL, Zaugg J, Berengut JF, Bissett A, Chuvochina M, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Candidatus Eremiobacterota, a metabolically and phylogenetically diverse terrestrial phylum with acid-tolerant adaptations. ISME J 2021; 15:2692-2707.
  • Sheremet et al. (2020) assigned the genus "Candidatus Rubrimentiphilum" Sheremet et al. 2020 to this phylum. Publication: Sheremet A, Jones GM, Jarett J, Bowers RM, Bedard I, Culham C, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Ivanova N, Malmstrom RR, Grasby SE, et al. Ecological and genomic analyses of candidate phylum WPS-2 bacteria in an unvegetated soil. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:3143-3157.
  • A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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Record number: 10063