Name: "Candidatus Melainabacteria" Di Rienzi et al. 2013

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Di Rienzi SC, Sharon I, Wrighton KC, Koren O, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Goodrich JK, Bell JT, Spector TD, Banfield JF, et al. The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria. Elife 2013; 2:e01102.

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: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Melainobacteriota" corrig. Di Rienzi et al. 2013

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Melainobacteriota" corrig. Di Rienzi et al. 2013	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this phylum to the subkingdom "Eoglycobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2020. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧕 Di Rienzi et al. (2013) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Di Rienzi SC, Sharon I, Wrighton KC, Koren O, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Goodrich JK, Bell JT, Spector TD, Banfield JF, et al. The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria. Elife 2013; 2:e01102.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Candidatus Sericytochromatia" Soo et al. 2017 to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Saganbacteria" to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Vampirovibrionia" to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Melainabacter"; "Melainbacteria"; "Melainibacteria".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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