Name: "Candidatus Thaumarchaeota" Brochier-Armanet et al. 2008

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Gr. neut. n. thaûma, wonder; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thaumarchaeota

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Cenarchaeum" DeLong and Preston 1996

Original publication: Brochier-Armanet C, Boussau B, Gribaldo S, Forterre P. Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nat Rev Microbiol 2008; 6:245-252. 🇫🇷

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no pro-standing)

Correct name: Thermoproteota Garrity and Holt 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Thermoproteobacteria" Shetty et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Nitrososphaerota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Korarchaeota" Ludwig and Klenk 2001	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Crenarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicota" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Thermoproteota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Thermoproteota Garrity and Holt 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Geothermarchaeota" Jungbluth et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Nitrososphaeraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Verstraetearchaeota" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Thermoproteaeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nitrososphaerota Brochier-Armanet et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brochier-Armanet et al. (2008) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Brochier-Armanet C, Boussau B, Gribaldo S, Forterre P. Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nat Rev Microbiol 2008; 6:245-252. 🇫🇷
  • 🧕 Guy and Ettema (2011) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "TACK" Guy and Ettema 2011. Publication: Guy L, Ettema TJ. The archaeal 'TACK' superphylum and the origin of eukaryotes. Trends Microbiol 2011; 19:580-587. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Ahlgren et al. (2017) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nitrosomarinus" Ahlgren et al. 2017 to this phylum. Publication: Ahlgren NA, Chen Y, Needham DM, Parada AE, Sachdeva R, Trinh V, Chen T, Fuhrman JA. Genome and epigenome of a novel marine Thaumarchaeota strain suggest viral infection, phosphorothioation DNA modification and multiple restriction systems. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:2434-2452. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Herbold et al. (2016) assigned the family "Candidatus Nitrosotenuaceae" Herbold et al. 2016 to this phylum. Publication: Herbold CW, Palatinszky M, Wagner M. Candidatus Nitrosotenuaceae. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2016, p. 1-5. 🇦🇹
  • 🧒 Hwang et al. (2021) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nitrosodeserticola" Hwang et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Hwang Y, Schulze-Makuch D, Arens FL, Saenz JS, Adam PS, Sager C, Bornemann TLV, Zhao W, Zhang Y, Airo A, et al. Leave no stone unturned: individually adapted xerotolerant Thaumarchaeota sheltered below the boulders of the Atacama Desert hyperarid core. Microbiome 2021; 9:234. 🇩🇪
  • 🧒 Kato et al. (2021) assigned the class Conexivisphaeria Kato et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Kato S, Ohnishi M, Nagamori M, Yuki M, Takashina T, Ohkuma M, Itoh T. Conexivisphaera calida gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic sulfur- and iron-reducing archaeon, and proposal of Conexivisphaeraceae fam. nov., Conexivisphaerales ord. nov., and Conexivisphaeria class. nov. in the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4595. 🇯🇵
  • 🧒 Lehtovirta-Morley et al. (2011) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nitrosotalea" Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2011 to this phylum. Publication: Lehtovirta-Morley LE, Stoecker K, Vilcinskas A, Prosser JI, Nicol GW. Cultivation of an obligate acidophilic ammonia oxidizer from a nitrifying acid soil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:15892-15897. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Muller et al. (2010) assigned the genus "Candidatus Gigantothauma" corrig. Muller et al. 2010 to this phylum. Publication: Muller F, Brissac T, Le Bris N, Felbeck H, Gros O. First description of giant Archaea (Thaumarchaeota) associated with putative bacterial ectosymbionts in a sulfidic marine habitat. Environ Microbiol 2010; 12:2371-2383. 🇫🇷
  • 🧒 Prosser and Nicol (2016) assigned the order "Candidatus Nitrosotaleales" Prosser and Nicol 2016 to this phylum. Publication: Prosser JI, Nicol G. Candidatus Nitrosotaleales. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2016, p. 1. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Qin et al. (2017) assigned the order Nitrosopumilales Qin et al. 2017 to this phylum. Publication: Qin W, Heal KR, Ramdasi R, Kobelt JN, Martens-Habbena W, Bertagnolli AD, Amin SA, Walker CB, Urakawa H, Konneke M, et al. Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5067-5079. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Santoro et al. (2015) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus" Santoro et al. 2015 to this phylum. Publication: Santoro AE, Dupont CL, Richter RA, Craig MT, Carini P, McIlvin MR, Yang Y, Orsi WD, Moran DM, Saito MA. Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:1173-1178. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Sauder et al. (2018) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nitrosotenuis" Lebedeva et al. 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Sauder LA, Engel K, Lo CC, Chain P, Neufeld JD. "Candidatus Nitrosotenuis aquarius," an Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon from a Freshwater Aquarium Biofilter. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:0. 🇨🇦
  • 🧒 Stieglmeier et al. (2014) assigned the class Nitrososphaeria Stieglmeier et al. 2014 to this phylum. Publication: Stieglmeier M, Klingl A, Alves RJ, Rittmann SK, Melcher M, Leisch N, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2738-2752. 🇦🇹
  • 🧒 Zhang et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Cenoporarchaeum" corrig. Zhang et al. 2019 to this phylum. Publication: Zhang S, Song W, Wemheuer B, Reveillaud J, Webster N, Thomas T. Comparative Genomics Reveals Ecological and Evolutionary Insights into Sponge-Associated Thaumarchaeota. mSystems 2019; 4:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tahumarchaeota"; "Thaumachaeota"; "Thaumarchaaeota"; "Thaumarcheaota".

Parent taxon: Thermoproteati Guy and Ettema 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. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪

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