Name: "Candidatus Magasanikiibacteriota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015
Category, proposed as: phylum, Candidatus
Etymology:Ma.ga.sa.ni.ki.i.bac.te.ri.o’ta.N.L. neut. n.Magasanikiibacterium, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named after Boris Magasanik who received the ASM Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000); N.L. neut. n.bacterium, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Magasanikiibacteriota, the Candidatus Magasanikiibacterium phylum [incorrectly formed: implied type unavailable]
Effective 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 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