Name: "Candidatus Thorarchaeota" corrig. Seitz et al. 2016

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Thor.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Thorarchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (named after Thor, the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology); N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Thorarchaeota, the Candidatus Thorarchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

Original publication: Seitz KW, Lazar CS, Hinrichs KU, Teske AP, Baker BJ. Genomic reconstruction of a novel, deeply branched sediment archaeal phylum with pathways for acetogenesis and sulfur reduction. ISME J 2016; 10:1696-1705.

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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Thorarchaeia" Seitz et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Liu et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.
  • 🧕 Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. (2017) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017. Publication: Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Caceres EF, Saw JH, Backstrom D, Juzokaite L, Vancaester E, Seitz KW, Anantharaman K, Starnawski P, Kjeldsen KU, et al. Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity. Nature 2017; 541:353-358.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Thoarchaeota"; "Thorachaeota".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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Record number: 846