Name: "Candidatus Verstraetearchaeota" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Verstraete, recognizing the contributions of Professor Willy Verstraete (Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology, Ghent University, Belgium) to the development and application of engineered microbial ecosystems such as anaerobic digesters; suff. -archaeota, ending to denote an archaeal phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Verstraetearchaeota

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Original publication: Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170.

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: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Methanomethylicota" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Korarchaeota" Ludwig and Klenk 2001	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Thaumarchaeota" Brochier-Armanet et al. 2008	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Methanomethylicota" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016	corrected spelling of name, not validly published
    "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, not validly published
    "Thermoproteaeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Nitrososphaeraeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Crenarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Nitrososphaerota Brochier-Armanet et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Nitrososphaerota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Vanwonterghem et al. (2016) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Vanwonterghem I, Evans PN, Parks DH, Jensen PD, Woodcroft BJ, Hugenholtz P, Tyson GW. Methylotrophic methanogenesis discovered in the archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16170.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Verstaraetearchaeota"; "Verstraeteachaeota".

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Record number: 847