Name: "Candidatus Korarchaeum cryptofilum" Elkins et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: cryp.to.fi’lum. Gr. masc. adj. kryptos, hidden; L. neut. n. filum, a thread; N.L. neut. n. cryptofilum, a hidden thread

Pronunciation, gender: kryp-to-FI-lum, neuter

Nomenclatural type: no culture isolated

16S rRNA gene: CP000968 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Korarchaeum" Elkins et al. 2008. Publication: Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Korarchaeum" Elkins et al. 2008

Assigned by: Elkins JG, Podar M, Graham DE, Makarova KS, Wolf Y, Randau L, Hedlund BP, Brochier-Armanet C, Kunin V, Anderson I, et al. A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8102-8107.

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Record number: 800519