Name: "Candidatus Omnitrophota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013
Category: Phylum
Proposed as: Candidatus
Etymology:Om.ni.tro.pho’ta.N.L. masc. n.Omnitrophus, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Omnitrophota, the Candidatus Omnitrophus phylum
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 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
🧒 Kolinko et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Candidatus Omnitrophus" Rinke et al. 2013 to this phylum.Publication:
Kolinko S, Richter M, Glockner FO, Brachmann A, Schuler D. Single-cell genomics of uncultivated deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria reveals a conserved set of magnetosome genes. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:21-37. 🇩🇪
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