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Phylum "Spirochaetota"
Name: "Spirochaetota" Whitman et al. 2018
Pronunciation, gender: spi-ro-kha͡e-TO-ta, neuter
Type class: "Spirochaetia" Cavalier-Smith 2020
Original publication:
Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969. 
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Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)
Correct name: Spirochaetota Garrity and Holt 2021
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Spirochaetota Garrity and Holt 2021 homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP "Spirochaetaeota" Oren et al. 2015 homotypic synonym, not validly published "Spirochaetae" (Ehrenberg 1855) Cavalier-Smith 1998 heterotypic synonym, not validly published "Spirochaetes" Garrity and Holt 2001 homotypic synonym, not validly published
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Notes:
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🛺 The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Spirochaetota Garrity and Holt 2021.
Publication:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056. 🇮🇱
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🚃 The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Spirochaetae" (Ehrenberg 1855) Cavalier-Smith 1998.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Spirochaeota"; "Spirochaota"; "Spirochcota".
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🛺 The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Spirochaetota Garrity and Holt 2021.
Publication:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056.
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.
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Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪
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Record number: 9018
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