Name: "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeum" Spang et al. 2019

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: He.im.dall.ar.chae’um. N.L. neut. n. archaeum, archaeon; N.L. neut. n. Heimdallarchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Heimdallarchae-), he-im-dall-ar-K^HA͡E-um

Original publication: Spang A, Stairs CW, Dombrowski N, Eme L, Lombard J, Caceres EF, Greening C, Baker BJ, Ettema TJG. Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:1138-1148. 🇳🇱

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeia" Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959. 🇦🇺
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeaceae" Wu et al. 2022. Publication: Wu F, Speth DR, Philosof A, Cremiere A, Narayanan A, Barco RA, Connon SA, Amend JP, Antoshechkin IA, Orphan VJ. Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:200-212. 🇺🇸
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeales" Wu et al. 2022. Publication: Wu F, Speth DR, Philosof A, Cremiere A, Narayanan A, Barco RA, Connon SA, Amend JP, Antoshechkin IA, Orphan VJ. Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:200-212. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Spang et al. (2019) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Spang A, Stairs CW, Dombrowski N, Eme L, Lombard J, Caceres EF, Greening C, Baker BJ, Ettema TJG. Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:1138-1148. 🇳🇱
  • 🧕 Wu et al. (2022) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeales" Wu et al. 2022. Publication: Wu F, Speth DR, Philosof A, Cremiere A, Narayanan A, Barco RA, Connon SA, Amend JP, Antoshechkin IA, Orphan VJ. Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:200-212. 🇺🇸
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

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 Heimdallarchaeum aukensis" Wu et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeum endolithica" Wu et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeaceae" Wu et al. 2022

Assigned by: Wu F, Speth DR, Philosof A, Cremiere A, Narayanan A, Barco RA, Connon SA, Amend JP, Antoshechkin IA, Orphan VJ. Unique mobile elements and scalable gene flow at the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary revealed by circularized Asgard archaea genomes. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:200-212. 🇺🇸

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