Name: "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" corrig. Bulzu et al. 2019

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Heim.dall.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Heimdallarchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Heimdallarchaeota, the Candidatus Heimdallarchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Bulzu PA, Andrei AS, Salcher MM, Mehrshad M, Inoue K, Kandori H, Beja O, Ghai R, Banciu HL. Casting light on Asgardarchaeota metabolism in a sunlit microoxic niche. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:1129-1137.

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: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeia" Bulzu et al. 2019	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Liu et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Heimallarchaeota".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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Record number: 42987