Name: "Candidatus Njordarchaeia" Xie et al. 2022

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Njord.ar.chae’i.a. N.L. neut. n. Njordarchaeum, Candidatus generic name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Njordarchaeia, the Njordarchaeum class

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Njordarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022

Original publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Xie et al. (2022) assigned this class to the phylum "Candidatus Njordarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.
  • 🧒 Xie et al. (2022) assigned the family "Candidatus Njordarchaeaceae" Xie et al. 2022 to this class. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Njordarchaeales" Xie et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024

Assigned by: Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.

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