Name: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeum ossiferum" Rodrigues-Oliveira et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: os.si’fe.rum. L. neut. pl. n. ossa, skeleton; L. v. fero, to carry; N.L. neut. adj. ossiferum, skeleton-carrying

Gender: neuter

Nomenclatural type: Loki-B35

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Original publication: Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Wollweber F, Ponce-Toledo RI, Xu J, Rittmann SKR, Klingl A, Pilhofer M, Schleper C. Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon. Nature 2023; 613:332-339.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 See also 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.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Lokiarchaeum" corrig. Spang et al. 2015

Assigned by: Rodrigues-Oliveira T, Wollweber F, Ponce-Toledo RI, Xu J, Rittmann SKR, Klingl A, Pilhofer M, Schleper C. Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon. Nature 2023; 613:332-339.

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Record number: 18028