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Phylum "Candidatus Omnitrophica"
Name: "Candidatus Omnitrophica" Rinke et al. 2013
Etymology: Om.ni.tro’phi.ca. N.L. fem. pl. n. Omnitrophica, a higher taxonomic unit comprising the genus Omnitrophus [incorrectly formed: last component may not be plural]
Type genus: "Candidatus Omnitrophus" Rinke et al. 2013
Effective publication:
Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437. 
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
Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling
Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Omnitrophota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Candidatus Omnitrophota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013 corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
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🧕 Rinke et al. (2013) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Omnitrophicaeota"; "Ormnitrophica".
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🧕 Rinke et al. (2013) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.
Publication:
Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
Parent taxon: [Bacteria, not assigned to kingdom]
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Record number: 7645
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