Name: "Candidatus Patescibacteriota" Dutkiewicz et al. 2025

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pa.tes.ci.bac.te.ri.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Patescibacterium, type genus of the phylum; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Patescibacteriota, the Patescibacterium phylum

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Patescibacterium" Dutkiewicz et al. 2025

Original publication: Dutkiewicz Z, Singleton CM, Sereika M, Villada JC, Mussig AJ, Chuvochina M, Albertsen M, Schulz F, Woyke T, Nielsen PH, et al. Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov. ISME Commun 2025; 5:ycae147.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no pro-standing)

Correct name: Minisyncoccota Nakajima et al. 2025

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Parcubacteria" Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, not pro-validly published
    "Candidatus Saccharimonadota" corrig. Albertsen et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Pacebacteria" Brown et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Gracilibacteria" Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Microgenomatota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Microgenomates" Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Saccharibacteria" Albertsen et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    Minisyncoccota Nakajima et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Paceibacterota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Altimarinota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Dutkiewicz et al. (2025) assigned the class "Candidatus Patescibacteriia" Dutkiewicz et al. 2025 to this phylum. Publication: Dutkiewicz Z, Singleton CM, Sereika M, Villada JC, Mussig AJ, Chuvochina M, Albertsen M, Schulz F, Woyke T, Nielsen PH, et al. Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov. ISME Commun 2025; 5:ycae147.
  • 🧒 Dutkiewicz et al. (2025) assigned the genus "Candidatus Patescibacterium" Dutkiewicz et al. 2025 to this phylum. Publication: Dutkiewicz Z, Singleton CM, Sereika M, Villada JC, Mussig AJ, Chuvochina M, Albertsen M, Schulz F, Woyke T, Nielsen PH, et al. Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov. ISME Commun 2025; 5:ycae147.
  • 🧒 Dutkiewicz et al. (2025) assigned the order "Candidatus Patescibacteriales" Dutkiewicz et al. 2025 to this phylum. Publication: Dutkiewicz Z, Singleton CM, Sereika M, Villada JC, Mussig AJ, Chuvochina M, Albertsen M, Schulz F, Woyke T, Nielsen PH, et al. Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov. ISME Commun 2025; 5:ycae147.
  • 🧍 The article mentions the SeqCode. This SeqCode is not an officially recognized code of nomenclature. In fact, the use of the SeqCode is officially discouraged. ICNP-compliant databases and publications are not allowed to use the SeqCode. The SeqCode deliberately and systematically violates the ICNP. The SeqCode attempts to undermine the scientific standard called "valid publication of the name of a prokaryote" by lowering the requirements compared to the ICNP, but using the same term and assigning it to names whose formation is indistinguishable from the one used by the ICNP. LPSN follows the ICNP and treats such names as not validly published. Publication: Goker M, Moore ERB, Oren A, Trujillo ME. Status of the SeqCode in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5754.

Parent taxon: Bacillati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Nakajima M, Nakai R, Hirakata Y, Kubota K, Satoh H, Nobu MK, Narihiro T, Kuroda K. Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic, obligate parasitic bacterium and proposal of Minisyncoccaceae fam. nov., Minisyncoccales ord. nov., Minisyncoccia class. nov. and Minisyncoccota phyl. nov. formerly referred to as Candidatus Patescibacteria or candidate phyla radiation. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6668.

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