Etymology:
Ar.chae’a. Gr. masc. adj.archaîos, ancient; N.L. neut. n.archaeum, denoting an archaeon, and therefore the last component in some of the names of genera currently placed in this domain; N.L. neut. pl. n.Archaea, the domain of the archaea
Valid publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6271.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the genus Halarchaeum Minegishi et al. 2010 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Parvarchaeota" Rinke et al. 2013 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Nitrososphaerota Brochier-Armanet et al. 2021 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Thermoproteota Garrity and Holt 2021 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Iainarchaeota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Korarchaeota" Ludwig and Klenk 2001 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Aenigmatarchaeota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Nanohalarchaeota" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Augarchaeota" corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Nanobdellota Huber et al. 2023 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Methanobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2023 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Halobacteriota Chuvochina et al. 2024 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Thermoplasmatota Chuvochina et al. 2024 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Göker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Microcaldota Sakai et al. 2023 to this domain.Publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
🧒 Imachi et al. (2024) assigned the phylum Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024 to this domain.Publication:
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.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Archaeota". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Archaeum".
🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2010.Publication:
Tindall BJ, Rossello-Mora R, Busse HJ, Ludwig W, Kampfer P. Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:249-266.
🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2018.Publication:
Chun J, Oren A, Ventosa A, Christensen H, Arahal DR, da Costa MS, Rooney AP, Yi H, Xu XW, De Meyer S, et al. Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:461-466.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
On SLW. Minutes of the inaugural 25 October 2022 meeting of International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittees on Taxonomy representatives: challenges, trends, and perspectives for microbial taxonomists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6075.
✏ The authority of the taxon name (Woese et al.) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Göker and Oren).
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4 Total number of child taxa: 9