Name: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" Spang et al. 2015

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Lokiarchaeota, is made in reference to the sampling location, Loki’s Castle , which in turn was named after the Norse mythology’s shape-shifting deity Loki.

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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • 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 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. 1990

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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