Name: "Candidatus Aigarchaeota" Nunoura et al. 2011

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Gr. aigi, meaning dawn and aurora for the intermediate features of hyperthermophilic and mesophilic life during the evolution of the crenarchaeal lineage (αυγη); N.L. neut. pl. n. Aigarchaeota

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Nunoura T, Takaki Y, Kakuta J, Nishi S, Sugahara J, Kazama H, Chee GJ, Hattori M, Kanai A, Atomi H, et al. Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:3204-3223.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. "Candidatus phylum list no. 1." Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus phyla. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Augarchaeota" corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Augarchaeota" corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Beam et al. (2016) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Beam JP, Jay ZJ, Schmid MC, Rusch DB, Romine MF, Jennings Rde M, Kozubal MA, Tringe SG, Wagner M, Inskeep WP. Ecophysiology of an uncultivated lineage of Aigarchaeota from an oxic, hot spring filamentous 'streamer' community. ISME J 2016; 10:210-224.
  • 🧕 Guy and Ettema (2011) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "TACK" Guy and Ettema 2011. Publication: Guy L, Ettema TJ. The archaeal 'TACK' superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes. Trends Microbiol 2011; 19:580-587.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aigachaeota"; "Aigararchaeota".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

Parent taxon: Archaea Woese et al. 2024

Assigned by: Nunoura T, Takaki Y, Kakuta J, Nishi S, Sugahara J, Kazama H, Chee GJ, Hattori M, Kanai A, Atomi H, et al. Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:3204-3223.

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