Name: "Candidatus Freyrarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Fre.yr.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Freyrarchaeum, Candidatus generic name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Freyrarchaeota, the Freyrarchaeum phylum

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: fre-yr-ar-k^ha͡e-O-ta, neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Freyrarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022

Effective publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Candidatus list no. 5. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Xie et al. (2022) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829. 🇨🇳

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Freyrarchaeia" Xie et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Archaea, not assigned to kingdom]

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