Name: "Candidatus Wolfebacteria" Brown et al. 2015

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Wolfebacteria, Named after Ralph S. Wolfe who recevied the ASM Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. [incorrectly formed: missing connecting vowel]

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Brown CT, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Sharon I, Castelle CJ, Singh A, Wilkins MJ, Wrighton KC, Williams KH, Banfield JF. Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria. Nature 2015; 523:208-211.

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 Wolfeibacteriota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Wolfeibacteriota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brown et al. (2015) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Parcubacteria" Brown et al. 2015. Publication: Brown CT, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Sharon I, Castelle CJ, Singh A, Wilkins MJ, Wrighton KC, Williams KH, Banfield JF. Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria. Nature 2015; 523:208-211.
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Woesebacteria from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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