Name: "Candidatus Cenarchaeaceae" DeLong and Preston 1996

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cen.arch.ae.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Cenarchaeaceae, the Cenarchaeum family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Cenarchaeum" DeLong and Preston 1996

Original publication: Preston CM, Wu KY, Molinski TF, DeLong EF. A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:6241-6246.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nitrosopumilaceae" Könneke et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Preston et al. (1996) assigned this family to the order "Candidatus Cenarchaeales" DeLong and Preston 1996. Publication: Preston CM, Wu KY, Molinski TF, DeLong EF. A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:6241-6246.
  • 🧒 Preston et al. (1996) assigned the genus "Candidatus Cenarchaeum" DeLong and Preston 1996 to this family. Publication: Preston CM, Wu KY, Molinski TF, DeLong EF. A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:6241-6246.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017. Publication: Qin W, Heal KR, Ramdasi R, Kobelt JN, Martens-Habbena W, Bertagnolli AD, Amin SA, Walker CB, Urakawa H, Konneke M, et al. Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5067-5079.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

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Record number: 1872