Name: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeum yapensis" Liu et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: yap’ensis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. yapensis, pertaining to Yap trench, which is the geographical position where the first type material of this species was obtained

Gender: neuter

Type strain: As_085

Original publication: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeum yapense" corrig. Liu et al. 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Wukongarchaeum yapense" corrig. Liu et al. 2021	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Wukongarchaeum" Liu et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liu Y, Makarova KS, Huang WC, Wolf YI, Nikolskaya AN, Zhang X, Cai M, Zhang CJ, Xu W, Luo Z, et al. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes. Nature 2021; 593:553-557.

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Record number: 30146