Name: "Candidatus Rifleibacteriota" corrig. Anantharaman et al. 2016
Category: Phylum
Proposed as: Candidatus
Etymology:Ri.fle.i.bac.te.ri.o’ta.N.L. neut. n.Rifleibacterium, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Rifleibacteriota, the Candidatus Rifleibacterium phylum
Effective publication:
Anantharaman K, Brown CT, Hug LA, Sharon I, Castelle CJ, Probst AJ, Thomas BC, Singh A, Wilkins MJ, Karaoz U, et al. Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system. Nat Commun 2016; 7:13219. 🇺🇸
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
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: 3