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

Type genus: "Candidatus Eremiobacter" Ji et al. 2021

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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. "Candidatus phylum list no. 1." Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus phyla. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Eremiobacterota" corrig. Ji et al. 2017

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Eremiobacterota" corrig. Ji et al. 2017	corrected spelling of name, not validly published
    Vulcanimicrobiota Yabe et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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. (2021) assigned the order "Candidatus Eremiobacterales" Ji et al. 2021 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Eremobacteraeota".

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Record number: 10063