Name: "Candidatus Cenarchaeum" DeLong and Preston 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cen.arch’ae.um. Gr. masc. adj. kainos, recent; Gr. masc. adj. koinos, common; Gr. adj. archaeo, ancient; N.L. neut. n. Cenarchaeum, genus of relatively recent (derived nonthermophilic phenotype) and common (non-"extremophilic") Archaea

Gender: neuter (stem: Cenarchae-)

Type species: "Candidatus Cenarchaeum symbiosum" 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Cenarchaeaceae" 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Cenarchaeales Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Thaumarchaeota" Brochier-Armanet et al. 2008. Publication: Brochier-Armanet C, Boussau B, Gribaldo S, Forterre P. Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nat Rev Microbiol 2008; 6:245-252.
  • 🧕 Preston et al. (1996) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Cenarchaeaceae" 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 this genus 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.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Cenarchaeum symbiosum" DeLong and Preston 1996	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017

Assigned by: 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.

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