Name: "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: He.im.dall.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; N.L. neut. n. Heimdallarchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus, named after Heimdall, a god in Norse mythology; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Heimdallarchaeota, the Candidatus Heimdallarchaeum phylum [incorrectly formed: implied type unavailable]

Pronunciation, gender: he-im-dall-ar-k^ha͡e-O-ta, neuter

Effective publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeota" corrig. Bulzu et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeia" Bulzu et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Spang et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Heimdallarchaeum" Spang et al. 2019 to this phylum. Publication: Spang A, Stairs CW, Dombrowski N, Eme L, Lombard J, Caceres EF, Greening C, Baker BJ, Ettema TJG. Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:1138-1148. 🇳🇱
  • 🙄 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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