Name: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeum" corrig. Spang et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Lo.ki.ar.chae.um. N.L. neut. n. Lokiarchaeum, made in reference to the sampling location, Loki’s Castle, which in turn was named after the Norse mythology’s shape-shifting deity Loki

Gender: neuter (stem: Lokiarchae-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179.

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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeon" Spang et al. 2015	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015. Publication: Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Spang et al. 2015. Publication: Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179.
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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 Lokiarchaeum ossiferum" Rodrigues-Oliveira et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Lokiarchaeota, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 7927