Phylum "Candidatus Moraniibacteriota"

Name: "Candidatus Moraniibacteriota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015

Category, proposed as: phylum, Candidatus

Etymology: Mo.ra.ni.i.bac.te.ri.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Moraniibacterium, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named after Nancy Moran who received the ISME Jim Tiedje Award in 2014); N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Moraniibacteriota, the Candidatus Moraniibacterium phylum [incorrectly formed: implied type unavailable]

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: mo-ra-ni-i-bak-te-ri-O-ta, neuter

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Moranbacteria" Brown et al. 2015	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Moranibacteriota".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Roizmaniibacteriota from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://doi.org/10.83108/rn.38939Copy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 38939