Name: "Candidatus Thalassarchaea" corrig. Martin-Cuadrado et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Tha.lass.ar.chae’a. Gr. fem. n. thalassa, the sea; N.L. neut. pl. n. archaea, archaeon; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thalassarchaea, archaeon from the sea (sic)

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Thalassarchae-), tha-lass-ar-KHA͡E-a

Type species: "Candidatus Thalassarchaea mediterranei" corrig. Martin-Cuadrado et al. 2015

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Martin-Cuadrado AB, Garcia-Heredia I, Molto AG, Lopez-Ubeda R, Kimes N, Lopez-Garcia P, Moreira D, Rodriguez-Valera F. A new class of marine Euryarchaeota group II from the Mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum. ISME J 2015; 9:1619-1634. 🇪🇸

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

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

Parent taxon: [Thalassarchaeia, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 21882
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