diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/opentelemetry/exporter/zipkin/__init__.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/opentelemetry/exporter/zipkin/__init__.py
index e5bd81a2539..1e544bcdac2 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/opentelemetry/exporter/zipkin/__init__.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/opentelemetry/exporter/zipkin/__init__.py
@@ -185,11 +185,11 @@ def _translate_to_zipkin(self, spans: Sequence[Span]):
 
             if span.status is not None:
                 zipkin_span["tags"][
-                    "ot.status_code"
+                    "otel.status_code"
                 ] = span.status.canonical_code.value
                 if span.status.description is not None:
                     zipkin_span["tags"][
-                        "ot.status_description"
+                        "otel.status_description"
                     ] = span.status.description
 
             if context.trace_flags.sampled:
diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py
index 337bc655626..49d1c2ffe62 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/tests/test_zipkin_exporter.py
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ def test_export(self):
                     "key_bool": "False",
                     "key_string": "hello_world",
                     "key_float": "111.22",
-                    "ot.status_code": 2,
-                    "ot.status_description": "Example description",
+                    "otel.status_code": 2,
+                    "otel.status_description": "Example description",
                 },
                 "annotations": [
                     {
@@ -237,7 +237,10 @@ def test_export(self):
                 "duration": durations[1] // 10 ** 3,
                 "localEndpoint": local_endpoint,
                 "kind": None,
-                "tags": {"key_resource": "some_resource", "ot.status_code": 0},
+                "tags": {
+                    "key_resource": "some_resource",
+                    "otel.status_code": 0,
+                },
                 "annotations": None,
             },
             {
@@ -251,7 +254,7 @@ def test_export(self):
                 "tags": {
                     "key_string": "hello_world",
                     "key_resource": "some_resource",
-                    "ot.status_code": 0,
+                    "otel.status_code": 0,
                 },
                 "annotations": None,
             },
@@ -266,7 +269,7 @@ def test_export(self):
                 "tags": {
                     "otel.instrumentation_library.name": "name",
                     "otel.instrumentation_library.version": "version",
-                    "ot.status_code": 0,
+                    "otel.status_code": 0,
                 },
                 "annotations": None,
             },
@@ -332,7 +335,7 @@ def test_zero_padding(self):
                 "duration": duration // 10 ** 3,
                 "localEndpoint": local_endpoint,
                 "kind": None,
-                "tags": {"ot.status_code": 0},
+                "tags": {"otel.status_code": 0},
                 "annotations": None,
                 "debug": True,
                 "parentId": "0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",