Name: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Wu.kong.ar.chae.o’ta. N.L. neut. n. Wukongarchaeum, a (Candidatus) type genus of the class of the phylum; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Wukongarchaeota, the Wukongarchaeum phylum

Gender: neuter

Type class: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeia" Liu et al. 2021

Original 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.

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: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeia" Spang et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Njordarchaeota" Xie et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Odinarchaeota" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Baldrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Hermodarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Lokiarchaeota" corrig. Spang et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Borrarchaeota" Liu et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Liu et al. (2021) assigned this phylum to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. 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.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🧒 Liu et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Wukongarchaeia" Liu et al. 2021 to this phylum. 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.
  • 🛺 The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024. Publication: Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.
  • 🚃 The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Candidatus Asgardarchaeota" Da Cunha et al. 2017. 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Wukongrarchaeota".

Parent taxon: Archaea Woese et al. 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. — Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.

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