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: preferred name (not correct name)

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Archaea Woese et al. 2024

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 12838
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