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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Bilamarchaeum"

Name: "Candidatus Bilamarchaeum" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Bi.lam.ar.chae’um. Dharawal n. bilama, freshwater turtle, in reference to their presence still nowadays in the creeks and rivers associated with the Little Forest Legacy Site; N.L. neut. n. archaeum, archaeon, ancient; from Gr. adj. archaîos -a -on, ancient; N.L. neut. n. Bilamarchaeum, an archaeon from the turtle lands

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Bilamarchae-), bi-lam-ar-KHA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Bilamarchaeum dharawalense" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Vazquez-Campos X, Kinsela AS, Bligh MW, Payne TE, Wilkins MR, Waite TD. Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:732575.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-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 Bilamarchaeaceae" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021

Assigned by: Vazquez-Campos X, Kinsela AS, Bligh MW, Payne TE, Wilkins MR, Waite TD. Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:732575.

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Record number: 23002
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