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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Burarchaeum"

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

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Bur.ar.chae’um. Dharawal n. buru, kangaroo; N.L. neut. n. archaeum, archaeon, ancient; from Gr. adj. archaîos -a -on, ancient; N.L. neut. n. Burarchaeum, an archaeon from the land of the kangaroos, also faunal emblem of Australia

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Burarchae-), bur-ar-KHA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Burarchaeum australiense" 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 Burarchaeaceae" 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: 23003
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