Phylum "Candidatus Pyropristinus"

Name: "Candidatus Pyropristinus" Colman et al. 2016

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Py.ro.pris’ti.nus. Gr. neut. n. pŷr, fire; L. masc. adj. pristinus, former/early; N.L. masc. pl. n. Pyropristinus, early thermophiles [incorrectly formed: last component is not plural]

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: py-ro-PRIS-ti-nus, masculine

Type genus: "Candidatus Caldipriscus" Colman et al. 2016

Effective publication: Colman DR, Jay ZJ, Inskeep WP, Jennings Rd, Maas KR, Rusch DB, Takacs-Vesbach CD. Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:304. 🇺🇸

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: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Caldipriscota" corrig. Colman et al. 2016

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadati (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. — Mori K, Hidaka K, Tamazawa S, Hosoyama A, Tamaki H, Kakegawa T, Hanada S. Caldifarcimen microaerophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium of a novel bacterial phylum, Caldifarciminota phyl. nov., formerly called candidate phylum WOR-3, description of Caldifarciminaceae fam. nov., Caldifarciminales ord. nov. and Caldifarciminia classis nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7229. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 14004

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