Name: "Candidatus Kaiseribacteriota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Kai.se.ri.bac.te.ri.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Kaiseribacterium, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named after A. Dale Kaiser who received the ASM Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997); N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Kaiseribacteriota, the Candidatus Kaiseribacterium phylum

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Brown CT, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Sharon I, Castelle CJ, Singh A, Wilkins MJ, Wrighton KC, Williams KH, Banfield JF. Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria. Nature 2015; 523:208-211.

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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Kaiserbacteria" Brown et al. 2015	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Adleribacteriota from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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Record number: 38954