Name: "Candidatus Goldiibacteriota" corrig. Hernsdorf et al. 2017
Category: Phylum
Proposed as: Candidatus
Etymology:Gol.di.i.bac.te.ri.o’ta.N.L. neut. n.Goldiibacterium, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named in recognition of Thomas Gold’s contributions to the study of the deep biosphere); N.L. neut. n.bacterium, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Goldiibacteriota, the Candidatus Goldiibacterium phylum [incorrectly formed: implied type unavailable]
Effective publication:
Hernsdorf AW, Amano Y, Miyakawa K, Ise K, Suzuki Y, Anantharaman K, Probst A, Burstein D, Thomas BC, Banfield JF. Potential for microbial H2 and metal transformations associated with novel bacteria and archaea in deep terrestrial subsurface sediments. ISME J 2017; 11:1915-1929. 🇺🇸
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Candidatus list no. 5. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.
Nomenclatural status:
not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status:
pro-validly published under the ICNP
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Goldibacteriota".
😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0 Total number of child taxa: 1