Name: "Candidatus Micrarchaeota" Baker and Dick 2013

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Micrarchaeum" Baker et al. 2010

Original publication: Baker BJ, Dick GJ. Omic Approaches in Microbial Ecology: Charting the Unknown. Microbe 2013; 8:353-360.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • The type genus of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Fujishima K, Sugahara J, Miller CS, Baker BJ, Di Giulio M, Takesue K, Sato A, Tomita M, Banfield JF, Kanai A. A novel three-unit tRNA splicing endonuclease found in ultrasmall Archaea possesses broad substrate specificity. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:9695-9704.
  • The type genus of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Candidatus Parvarchaeota" Rinke et al. 2013. Publication: Rinke C, Schwientek P, Sczyrba A, Ivanova NN, Anderson IJ, Cheng JF, Darling A, Malfatti S, Swan BK, Gies EA, et al. Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter. Nature 2013; 499:431-437.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Microarchaeota".
  • While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Micrarchaeia" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    [Micrarchaeota, not assigned to class]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

Parent taxon: "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990

Assigned by: Baker BJ, Dick GJ. Omic Approaches in Microbial Ecology: Charting the Unknown. Microbe 2013; 8:353-360.

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Record number: 13811