Name: "Candidatus Micrarchaeum acidiphilum" Baker et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: a.ci.di’phi.lum. N.L. neut. adj. acidiphilum, acid-loving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ARMAN-2

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ848677 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Baker BJ, Comolli LR, Dick GJ, Hauser LJ, Hyatt D, Dill BD, Land ML, Verberkmoes NC, Hettich RL, Banfield JF. Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:8806-8811.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Micrarchaeum" Baker et al. 2010. Publication: Baker BJ, Comolli LR, Dick GJ, Hauser LJ, Hyatt D, Dill BD, Land ML, Verberkmoes NC, Hettich RL, Banfield JF. Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:8806-8811.
  • 🧍 Fujishima et al. (2011) have found this species to encode for a novel type of archaeal tRNA splicing endonuclease. Publication: Fujishima K, Sugahara J, Miller CS, Baker BJ, Di Giulio M, Takesue K, Sato A, Tomita M, Banfield JF, Kanai A. A novel three-unit tRNA splicing endonuclease found in ultrasmall Archaea possesses broad substrate specificity. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:9695-9704.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Micrarchaeum" Baker et al. 2010

Assigned by: Baker BJ, Comolli LR, Dick GJ, Hauser LJ, Hyatt D, Dill BD, Land ML, Verberkmoes NC, Hettich RL, Banfield JF. Enigmatic, ultrasmall, uncultivated Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:8806-8811.

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Record number: 19882