Name: "Candidatus Baldrarchaeum" Liu et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Baldr.ar.chae’um. N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; N.L. neut. n. Baldrarchaeum, an archaeon named after Baldr, the god of light and son of Odin and brother of Thor in Norse mythology

Gender: neuter (stem: Baldrarchae-)

Type species: "Candidatus Baldrarchaeum yapense" corrig. 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)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Baldrarchaeaceae" Liu et al. 2021. 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Baldrarchaeales" Liu et al. 2021. 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.
  • 🧕 Liu et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Baldrarchaeales" Liu et al. 2021. 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.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Borrarchaeum from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Baldrarchaeum yapense" corrig. Liu et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Baldrarchaeum yapensis" Liu et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Baldrarchaeaceae" 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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