Name: "Candidatus Sifarchaeota" Farag et al. 2021

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Sif.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Sifarchaeum, a Candidatus genus name; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Sifarchaeota, the Candidatus Sifarchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Sifarchaeotum" Farag et al. 2021

Original publication: Farag IF, Zhao R, Biddle JF. "Sifarchaeota," a Novel Asgard Phylum from Costa Rican Sediment Capable of Polysaccharide Degradation and Anaerobic Methylotrophy. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:0.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Farag et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Farag IF, Zhao R, Biddle JF. "Sifarchaeota," a Novel Asgard Phylum from Costa Rican Sediment Capable of Polysaccharide Degradation and Anaerobic Methylotrophy. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:0.
  • 🧕 Sun et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Sun J, Evans PN, Gagen EJ, Woodcroft BJ, Hedlund BP, Woyke T, Hugenholtz P, Rinke C. Recoding of stop codons expands the metabolic potential of two novel Asgardarchaeota lineages. ISME Commun 2021; 1:30.
  • 🧒 Sun et al. (2021) assigned the order "Candidatus Sifarchaeales" Sun et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Sun J, Evans PN, Gagen EJ, Woodcroft BJ, Hedlund BP, Woyke T, Hugenholtz P, Rinke C. Recoding of stop codons expands the metabolic potential of two novel Asgardarchaeota lineages. ISME Commun 2021; 1:30.

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