Etymology:
Kor.ar.chae’um. Gr. masc. n.koros, young man; N.L. neut. n.archaeum, archaeon; N.L. neut. n.Korarchaeum, young archaeon because of the early divergence of the group
Original publication:
Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.
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 Korarchaeaceae" 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 order "Candidatus Korarchaeales" 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 phylum "Candidatus Korarchaeota" Ludwig and Klenk 2001.Publication:
Ludwig W, Klenk HP. Overview: a phylogenetic backbone and taxonomic framework for procaryotic systematics. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 1., Springer, New York, 2001, p. 213-235.
🧕 Elkins et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the kingdom "Korarchaeota" Barns et al. 1996.Publication:
Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.
🧕 Elkins et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the order "Korarchaeales".Publication:
Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.
🧕 Elkins et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Korarchaeota" Ludwig and Klenk 2001.Publication:
Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.
🧕 Guy and Ettema (2011) assigned this genus to the superphylum "TACK" Guy and Ettema 2011.Publication:
Guy L, Ettema TJ. The archaeal 'TACK' superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes. Trends Microbiol 2011; 19:580-587.
🧕 Rinke et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Korarchaeales" 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.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Koarchaeum"; "Korachaeum"; "Korarachaeum"; "Korarcheum".
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