Name: "Candidatus Margulisiibacteriota" corrig. Anantharaman et al. 2016
Category, proposed as: phylum, Candidatus
Etymology:Mar.gu.li.si.i.bac.te.ri.o’ta.N.L. neut. n.Margulisiibacterium, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named after Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst); N.L. neut. n.bacterium, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Margulisiibacteriota, the Candidatus Margulisiibacterium phylum [incorrectly formed: implied type unavailable]
Effective publication:
Anantharaman K, Brown CT, Hug LA, Sharon I, Castelle CJ, Probst AJ, Thomas BC, Singh A, Wilkins MJ, Karaoz U, et al. Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system. Nat Commun 2016; 7:13219. 🇺🇸
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
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Margulisibacteriota".
😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0 Total number of child taxa: 2