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Order "Candidatus Nitrosocaldales"
Name: "Candidatus Nitrosocaldales" De La Torre et al. 2008
Etymology: Ni.tro.so.cal.da’les. N.L. fem. pl. n. Nitrosocaldales, the Nitrosocaldus order
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ni-tro-so-kal-DA-les, feminine
Type genus: "Candidatus Nitrosocaldus" De la Torre et al. 2008
Effective publication:
de la Torre JR, Walker CB, Ingalls AE, Konneke M, Stahl DA. Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:810-818. 
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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
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Notes:
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🧕 De la Torre et al. (2008) assigned this order to the phylum "Crenarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001.
Publication:
de la Torre JR, Walker CB, Ingalls AE, Konneke M, Stahl DA. Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:810-818. 🇺🇸
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🧕 Zou et al. (2020) assigned this order to the class Nitrososphaeria Stieglmeier et al. 2014.
Publication:
Zou D, Wan R, Han L, Xu MN, Liu Y, Liu H, Kao SJ, Li M. Genomic Characteristics of a Novel Species of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea from the Jiulong River Estuary. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:0. 🇨🇳
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🧒 De la Torre et al. (2008) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nitrosocaldus" De la Torre et al. 2008 to this order.
Publication:
de la Torre JR, Walker CB, Ingalls AE, Konneke M, Stahl DA. Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:810-818. 🇺🇸
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrospcaldales".
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🧕 De la Torre et al. (2008) assigned this order to the phylum "Crenarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001.
Publication:
de la Torre JR, Walker CB, Ingalls AE, Konneke M, Stahl DA. Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:810-818.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Nitrosocaldaceae" De La Torre et al. 2008 not validly published pro-correct name
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Parent taxon: [Thermoproteota, not assigned to class]
Assigned by:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056. 🇮🇱
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Record number: 737
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