Name: "Korarchaeota" Barns et al. 1996

Category: Kingdom

Proposed as: new kingdom

Etymology: Kor.ar.chae.o’ta. Gr. masc. n. koros, "young man" or kore (kore) "young woman, " for the early divergence of this group during the evolution of Archaea (koros); Gr. masc. adj. archaîos, "ancient, primitive" (archaios); N.L. neut. pl. n. Korarchaeota, the Candidatus Korarchaeum phylum

Original publication: Barns SM, Delwiche CF, Palmer JD, Pace NR. Perspectives on archaeal diversity, thermophily and monophyly from environmental rRNA sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:9188-9193.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Elkins et al. (2008) assigned the genus "Candidatus Korarchaeum" Elkins et al. 2008 to this kingdom. Publication: Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Korachaeota"; "Korearchaeota".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😴 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.

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Record number: 787