Phylum "Candidatus Woesearchaeota"

Name: "Candidatus Woesearchaeota" Castelle et al. 2015

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Woe.se.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Woesearchaeum, a yet-to-be-proposed name for the type genus (recognizing the pioneering contribution to archaeal phylogeny of the late Professor Carl Woese); N.L. neut. n. archaeum, an archaeon; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Woesearchaeota, the Candidatus Woesearchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

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: 8754
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