Name: "Candidatus Halobacterota" Bräuer et al. 2020

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ha.lo.bac.te.ro’ta. N.L. masc. n. Halobacter, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus; from Gr. masc. n. hals, salt; from N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Halobacterota, the Candidatus Halobacter phylum

Gender: neuter

Original publication: L Brauer S, Basiliko N, M P Siljanen H, H Zinder S. Methanogenic archaea in peatlands. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2020; 367:0.

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: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

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Record number: 25585