Name: "Candidatus Micrarchaeum" Baker et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Micr.ar.chae’um. Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small (may keep -o); N.L. neut. n. archaeum, archaeon; N.L. neut. n. Micrarchaeum, a small archaeum

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Micrarchae-), mikr-ar-K^HA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Micrarchaeum acidiphilum" Baker et al. 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Baker BJ, Comolli LR, Dick GJ, Hauser LJ, Hyatt D, Dill BD, Land ML, Verberkmoes NC, Hettich RL, Banfield JF. Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:8806-8811.

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 Micrarchaeaceae" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021. Publication: Vazquez-Campos X, Kinsela AS, Bligh MW, Payne TE, Wilkins MR, Waite TD. Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:732575.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Micrarchaeales" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021. Publication: Vazquez-Campos X, Kinsela AS, Bligh MW, Payne TE, Wilkins MR, Waite TD. Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:732575.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Micrarchaeota" Baker and Dick 2013. Publication: Baker BJ, Dick GJ. Omic approaches in microbial ecology: charting the unknown. Microbe Magazine 2013; 8:353-360.
  • 🧕 Fujishima et al. (2011) assigned this genus to the phylum "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Fujishima K, Sugahara J, Miller CS, Baker BJ, Di Giulio M, Takesue K, Sato A, Tomita M, Banfield JF, Kanai A. A novel three-unit tRNA splicing endonuclease found in ultrasmall Archaea possesses broad substrate specificity. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:9695-9704.
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the order "Micrarchaeales". Publication: Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
  • 🧕 Rinke et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Parvarchaeota" Rinke et al. 2013. Publication: Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
  • 🧕 Vazquez-Campos et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Micrarchaeales" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021. Publication: Vazquez-Campos X, Kinsela AS, Bligh MW, Payne TE, Wilkins MR, Waite TD. Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:732575.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Micrarchaeum acidiphilum" Baker et al. 2010	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Micrarchaeum harzense" corrig. Winkler et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Micrarchaeum harzensis" Winkler et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Micrarchaeaceae" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021

Assigned by: Vazquez-Campos X, Kinsela AS, Bligh MW, Payne TE, Wilkins MR, Waite TD. Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:732575.

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