Class "Candidatus Wukongarchaeia"

Name: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeia" Liu et al. 2021

Category: Class

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Wu.kong.ar.chae’i.a. N.L. neut. n. Wukongarchaeum, a (Candidatus) type genus of the order of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Wukongarchaeia, the Wukongarchaeum class

Gender: neuter

Type order: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeales" Liu et al. 2021

Original publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.

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Record number: 30142
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