Name: "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Eur.y.arch.ae.o’ta M.L. fem. pl. n. Euryarchaeota, from the Kingdom Euryarchaeota (Weese, Kandler and Wheelis 1990, 4579)

Type order: Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981

Original publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 211-355.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 85. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:685-690.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Methanobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Methanobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Archaebacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Euryachaeota"; "Euryarachaeota"; "Euryarchaeaota"; "Euryarchaota"; "Euyarchaeota".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Archaeoglobi Garrity and Holt 2002	validly published	correct name
    [Euryarchaeota, not assigned to class]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Halobacteria Grant et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Methanobacteria Boone 2002	validly published	correct name
    Methanococci Boone 2002	validly published	correct name
    "Candidatus Methanofastidiosa" Nobu et al. 2016	not validly published
    "Methanomicrobia" Garrity et al. 2003	not validly published
    Methanonatronarchaeia Sorokin et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Methanopyri Garrity and Holt 2002	validly published	correct name
    Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002	validly published	correct name
    Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. Phylum AII. Euryarchaeota phy. nov. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 211-355.

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