Phylum "Candidatus Hydrothermota"

Name: "Candidatus Hydrothermota" corrig. Jungbluth et al. 2017

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Hy.dro.ther.mo’ta. N.L. masc. n. Hydrothermus, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Hydrothermota, the Candidatus Hydrothermus phylum

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: hy-dro-t^her-MO-ta, neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Hydrothermus" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Effective publication: Jungbluth SP, Amend JP, Rappe MS. Metagenome sequencing and 98 microbial genomes from Juan de Fuca Ridge flank subsurface fluids. Sci Data 2017; 4:170037. 🇺🇸

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Caldifarciminota Mori et al. 2026

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Caldifarciminota Mori et al. 2026	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Candidatus Pyropristinus" Colman et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
"Candidatus Caldipriscota" corrig. Colman et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
"Candidatus Hydrothermae" Jungbluth et al. 2017	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Notes:
- 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2019) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Chuvochina M, Rinke C, Parks DH, Rappe MS, Tyson GW, Yilmaz P, Whitman WB, Hugenholtz P. The importance of designating type material for uncultured taxa. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:15-21. 🇦🇺
- 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2019) assigned the class "Candidatus Hydrothermia" Chuvochina et al. 2019 to this phylum. Publication: Chuvochina M, Rinke C, Parks DH, Rappe MS, Tyson GW, Yilmaz P, Whitman WB, Hugenholtz P. The importance of designating type material for uncultured taxa. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:15-21. 🇦🇺
- 🧒 Slobodkina et al. (2025) assigned the class "Candidatus Tepidihabitantia" Slobodkina et al. 2025 to this phylum. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺
- ❗ "Candidatus Hydrothermota" is the pro-correct name instead if this phylum is regarded as a separate phylum (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another phylum whose name is validly published and legitimate or pro-validly published and pro-legitimate and not rejected and has priority or pro-priority).

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. — Mori K, Hidaka K, Tamazawa S, Hosoyama A, Tamaki H, Kakegawa T, Hanada S. Caldifarcimen microaerophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Caldifarciminota phyl. nov., formerly called candidate phylum WOR-3, description of Caldifarciminaceae fam. nov., Caldifarciminales ord. nov. and Caldifarciminia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7229. 🇯🇵

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