Etymology:Vul.ca.ni.mi.cro.bi.o’ta.N.L. neut. n.Vulcanimicrobium, a bacterial genus; L. neut. pl. n. suff.-ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n.Vulcanimicrobiota, the Vulcanimicrobium phylum
Effective publication:
Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM. Correction: Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph. ISME Commun 2023; 3:102. 🇯🇵
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 216. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6229.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
Notes:
🧕 Mori et al. (2026) assigned this phylum to the kingdom Bacillati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024.Publication:
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. 🇯🇵
🧒 Yabe et al. (2023) assigned the family Vulcanimicrobiaceae Yabe et al. 2024 to this phylum.Publication:
Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM. Correction: Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph. ISME Commun 2023; 3:102. 🇯🇵
🧒 Yabe et al. (2023) assigned the genus Vulcanimicrobium Yabe et al. 2023 to this phylum.Publication:
Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM. Correction: Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph. ISME Commun 2023; 3:102. 🇯🇵
🧒 Yabe et al. (2023) assigned the order Vulcanimicrobiales Yabe et al. 2024 to this phylum.Publication:
Yabe S, Muto K, Abe K, Yokota A, Staudigel H, Tebo BM. Correction: Vulcanimicrobium alpinus gen. nov. sp. nov., the first cultivated representative of the candidate phylum "Eremiobacterota", is a metabolically versatile aerobic anoxygenic phototroph. ISME Commun 2023; 3:102. 🇯🇵
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Vulcaniimicrobiota".
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 2; BCRC: 2; JCM: 2; DSM: 2.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1 Total number of child taxa: 8