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Phylum "Candidatus Kryptonia"
Name: "Candidatus Kryptonia" Eloe-Fadrosh et al. 2016
Etymology: Gr. neut. adj. krypton, hidden or secret; N.L. neut. pl. n. Kryptonia
Type genus: "Candidatus Kryptonium" Eloe-Fadrosh et al. 2016
Effective publication:
Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Paez-Espino D, Jarett J, Dunfield PF, Hedlund BP, Dekas AE, Grasby SE, Brady AL, Dong H, Briggs BR, et al. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10476. 
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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 Kryptoniota" corrig. Eloe-Fadrosh et al. 2016
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Candidatus Kryptoniota" corrig. Eloe-Fadrosh et al. 2016 corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
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🧕 Eloe-Fadrosh et al. (2016) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Paez-Espino D, Jarett J, Dunfield PF, Hedlund BP, Dekas AE, Grasby SE, Brady AL, Dong H, Briggs BR, et al. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10476. 🇺🇸
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🚃 The type genus of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Candidatus Kryptoniota" corrig. Eloe-Fadrosh et al. 2016.
Publication:
Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Paez-Espino D, Jarett J, Dunfield PF, Hedlund BP, Dekas AE, Grasby SE, Brady AL, Dong H, Briggs BR, et al. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10476. 🇺🇸
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kryptoniales".
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🧕 Eloe-Fadrosh et al. (2016) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Paez-Espino D, Jarett J, Dunfield PF, Hedlund BP, Dekas AE, Grasby SE, Brady AL, Dong H, Briggs BR, et al. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10476.
Parent taxon: [Bacteria, not assigned to kingdom]
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Record number: 13964
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