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]
heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
Notes:
🧕 Colman et al. (2016) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990.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. 🇺🇸
🚃 The type genus of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Candidatus Caldipriscota" corrig. Colman et al. 2016.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. 🇺🇸
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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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