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Phylum "Candidatus Kapabacteria"
Name: "Candidatus Kapabacteria" Kantor et al. 2015
Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Kapabacteria, The name, ‘Kapa’, reflects the location of cultivation, University of Cape Town. [probably better: Kapaibacteria]
Type genus: "Candidatus Kapabacteria" Kantor et al. 2015
Effective publication:
Kantor RS, van Zyl AW, van Hille RP, Thomas BC, Harrison ST, Banfield JF. Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4929-4941. 
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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: inaccurate spelling
Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling
Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Kapaibacteriota" corrig. Kantor et al. 2015
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Candidatus Kapaibacteriota" corrig. Kantor et al. 2015 corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
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🧕 Kantor et al. (2015) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Kantor RS, van Zyl AW, van Hille RP, Thomas BC, Harrison ST, Banfield JF. Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4929-4941. 🇺🇸
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kapaibacteria"; "Kappabacteria".
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Bowman JP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Minutes of the open meeting, 10 July 2019, Glasgow, UK. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5966. 🇦🇺
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🧕 Kantor et al. (2015) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Kantor RS, van Zyl AW, van Hille RP, Thomas BC, Harrison ST, Banfield JF. Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4929-4941.
Parent taxon: [Bacteria, not assigned to kingdom]
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Record number: 798
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