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

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Lo.ki.ar.chae’um. N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; from Gr. masc. adj. archaîos, ancient; N.L. neut. n. Lokiarchaeum, an archaeon named after Loki, a god in Norse mythology

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Lokiarchae-), lo-ki-ar-K^HA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeum primum" Spang et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective 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

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

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

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" 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 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" Bulzu et al. 2019. Publication: Bulzu PA, Andrei AS, Salcher MM, Mehrshad M, Inoue K, Kandori H, Beja O, Ghai R, Banciu HL. Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:1129-1137. 🇨🇿
  • 🥇 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. 🇸🇪
  • 🧍 See also Rodrigues-Oliveira et al. (2023). Publication: Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Wollweber F, Ponce-Toledo RI, Xu J, Rittmann SKR, Klingl A, Pilhofer M, Schleper C. Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon. Nature 2023; 613:332-339. 🇨🇭

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 Lokiarchaeum ossiferum" Rodrigues-Oliveira et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeum primum" Spang et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-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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