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Class "Candidatus Njordarchaeia"
Name: "Candidatus Njordarchaeia" Xie et al. 2022
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
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
Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)
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Notes:
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🧕 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.
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🧒 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.
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🧕 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.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Njordarchaeales" Xie et al. 2022 not validly published preferred name
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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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Record number: 29844
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