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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Prometheoarchaeum"

Name: "Candidatus Prometheoarchaeum" Imachi et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter, pro-me-the-o-ar-KHA͡E-um

Type species: "Candidatus Prometheoarchaeum syntrophicum" Imachi et al. 2020

Effective publication: Imachi H, Nobu MK, Nakahara N, Morono Y, Ogawara M, Takaki Y, Takano Y, Uematsu K, Ikuta T, Ito M, et al. Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface. Nature 2020; 577:519-525. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Promethearchaeum" corrig. Imachi et al. 2020

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

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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Record number: 28533
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