Name: "Acherontia" Adam et al. 2017

Category: Superclass

Proposed as: new superclass

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Acherontia, Acheron, the "river of woe" in the Underworld.

Original publication: Adam PS, Borrel G, Brochier-Armanet C, Gribaldo S. The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology. ISME J 2017; 11:2407-2425.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Adam et al. (2017) assigned this superclass to the phylum "Euryarchaeota" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Adam PS, Borrel G, Brochier-Armanet C, Gribaldo S. The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology. ISME J 2017; 11:2407-2425.
  • 🧒 Adam et al. (2017) assigned the class Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002 to this superclass. Publication: Adam PS, Borrel G, Brochier-Armanet C, Gribaldo S. The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology. ISME J 2017; 11:2407-2425.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acherontis".
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 😴 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.

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Record number: 29243