Name: "Candidatus Korarchaeum" Elkins et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

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

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Korarchae-), kor-ar-K^HA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum" Elkins et al. 2008

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective 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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum" Elkins et al. 2008	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Korarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2021

Assigned by: 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.

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