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.
  • 🧕 Spang et al. (2015) assigned this genus to 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.
  • 😟 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: Promethearchaeaceae Imachi et al. 2024

Assigned by: Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.

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