Name: "Candidatus Njordarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Njord.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Njordarchaeum, Candidatus generic name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Njordarchaeota, the Njordarchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Njordarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022

Effective publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Spang et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Bulzu et al. 2019	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling and not pro-validly published
    "Candidatus Odinarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Baldrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Borrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Wukongarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Hermodarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Xie et al. (2022) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.
  • 🧕 Xie et al. (2022) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.
  • 🧒 Xie et al. (2022) assigned the class "Candidatus Njordarchaeia" Xie et al. 2022 to this phylum. Publication: Xie R, Wang Y, Huang D, Hou J, Li L, Hu H, Zhao X, Wang F. Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Sci China Life Sci 2022; 65:818-829.
  • ❗ "Candidatus Njordarchaeota" is the pro-correct name instead if this phylum is regarded as a separate phylum (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another phylum whose name is validly published and legitimate or pro-validly published and pro-legitimate and not rejected and has priority or pro-priority).

Parent taxon: Promethearchaeati Imachi et al. 2024

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.

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