Name: "Candidatus Parvarchaeum paracidiphilum" corrig. Baker et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: par.a.ci.di’phi.lum. Gr. prep. para, resembling; L. neut. adj. acidum, an acid; from L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; N.L. neut. adj. suff. -philum, loving; from Gr. neut. adj. philon, friend; N.L. neut. adj. paracidiphilum, resembling (Parvarchaeum) acidiphilum

Gender: neuter

Nomenclatural type: ARMAN-5

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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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Parvarchaeum acidophilus" Baker et al. 2010	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Parvarchaeum" 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: 22106