Name: "Candidatus Thalassarchaeum betae" Rinke et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: be’tae. L. gen. fem. n. betae, of beta, the second letter for the Greek alphabet, named to honour the original description of this group as II-β

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … BE-ta͡e, neuter

Nomenclatural type: Cayman_51_deep; PSPG00000000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: PSPG01000012 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Rinke C, Rubino F, Messer LF, Youssef N, Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Brown M, Jeffries T, Tyson GW, Seymour JR, et al. A phylogenomic and ecological analysis of the globally abundant Marine Group II archaea (Ca. Poseidoniales ord. nov.). ISME J 2019; 13:663-675. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

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 Thalassarchaeum" Rinke et al. 2019. Publication: Rinke C, Rubino F, Messer LF, Youssef N, Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Brown M, Jeffries T, Tyson GW, Seymour JR, et al. A phylogenomic and ecological analysis of the globally abundant Marine Group II archaea (Ca. Poseidoniales ord. nov.). ISME J 2019; 13:663-675. 🇦🇺
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Thalassarchaeum" Rinke et al. 2019

Assigned by: Rinke C, Rubino F, Messer LF, Youssef N, Parks DH, Chuvochina M, Brown M, Jeffries T, Tyson GW, Seymour JR, et al. A phylogenomic and ecological analysis of the globally abundant Marine Group II archaea (Ca. Poseidoniales ord. nov.). ISME J 2019; 13:663-675. 🇦🇺

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Record number: 17339