Name: "Candidatus Rokubacteria" Hug et al. 2016

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Rokubacteria, from the Sino-Japanese for the number six

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Hug LA, Thomas BC, Sharon I, Brown CT, Sharma R, Hettich RL, Wilkins MJ, Williams KH, Singh A, Banfield JF. Critical biogeochemical functions in the subsurface are associated with bacteria from new phyla and little studied lineages. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:159-173.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. "Candidatus phylum list no. 1." Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus phyla. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Rokuibacteriota" corrig. Hug et al. 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Rokuibacteriota" corrig. Hug et al. 2016	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rokubactera".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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Record number: 8753