Name: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Lo.ki.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Lokiarchaeum, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Lokiarchaeota, the Candidatus Lokiarchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeum" corrig. Spang et al. 2015

Original publication: Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179.

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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Spang et al. 2015	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.
  • 🧕 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. (2015) assigned the genus "Candidatus Lokiarchaeon" Spang et al. 2015 to this phylum. Publication: Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lokiarchaeaota"; "Lokiarcheaota".

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
    [Lokiarchaeota, not assigned to class]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: Archaea Woese et al. 2024

Assigned by: Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179.

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