Name: "Candidatus Pacearchaeota" Castelle et al. 2015
Etymology: Pace.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Pacearchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (recognizing the contributions of Professor Norman Pace to archaeal phylogeny and cultivation-independent phylogenetic analyses); N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Pacearchaeota, the Candidatus Pacearchaeum phylum
Original publication: Castelle CJ, Wrighton KC, Thomas BC, Hug LA, Brown CT, Wilkins MJ, Frischkorn KR, Tringe SG, Singh A, Markillie LM, et al. Genomic expansion of domain archaea highlights roles for organisms from new phyla in anaerobic carbon cycling. Curr Biol 2015; 25:690-701.
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)
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Record number: 8752