Name: "Candidatus Gerdarchaeota" Cai et al. 2020
Etymology: Gerd.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Gerdarchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named after Gerd, the Norse goddess of fertile soil); N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Gerdarchaeota, the Candidatus Gerdarchaeum phylum
Original publication: Cai M, Liu Y, Yin X, Zhou Z, Friedrich MW, Richter-Heitmann T, Nimzyk R, Kulkarni A, Wang X, Li W, et al. Diverse Asgard archaea including the novel phylum Gerdarchaeota participate in organic matter degradation. Sci China Life Sci 2020; 63:886-897.
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: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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Record number: 35308