Name: "Candidatus Acidulidesulfobacterium acidiphilum" corrig. Tan et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: a.ci.di’phi.lum. L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. neut. adj. acidiphilum, acid loving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: AP4

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Original publication: Tan S, Liu J, Fang Y, Hedlund BP, Lian ZH, Huang LY, Li JT, Huang LN, Li WJ, Jiang HC, et al. Insights into ecological role of a new deltaproteobacterial order Candidatus Acidulodesulfobacterales by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics. ISME J 2019; 13:2044-2057.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Acidulodesulfobacterium acidiphilum" Tan et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, orthographic variant

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Acidulidesulfobacterium" corrig. Tan et al. 2019

Assigned by: Tan S, Liu J, Fang Y, Hedlund BP, Lian ZH, Huang LY, Li JT, Huang LN, Li WJ, Jiang HC, et al. Insights into ecological role of a new deltaproteobacterial order Candidatus Acidulodesulfobacterales by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics. ISME J 2019; 13:2044-2057.

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Record number: 13055