Domain: Archaea
- ️Tue Feb 11 2025
Name: Archaea Woese et al. 2024
Etymology: Ar.chae’a. Gr. masc. adj. archaîos, ancient; N.L. neut. n. archaeum, denoting an archaeon, and therefore the last component in some of the names of genera currently placed in this domain; N.L. neut. pl. n. Archaea, the domain of the archaea
Type genus: Methanobacterium Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)
Valid publication:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6271.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Archaebiota" Luketa 2012 heterotypic synonym, not validly published "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990 heterotypic synonym, not validly published
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Notes:
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🧒 Imachi et al. (2024) assigned the phylum Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024 to this domain.
Publication:
Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Archaeota". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Archaeum".
- 🔧 This taxon name is a replacement for "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990.
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🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2018.
Publication:
Chun J, Oren A, Ventosa A, Christensen H, Arahal DR, da Costa MS, Rooney AP, Yi H, Xu XW, De Meyer S, et al. Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:461-466.
- ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Woese et al.) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Göker and Oren).
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🧒 Imachi et al. (2024) assigned the phylum Promethearchaeota Imachi et al. 2024 to this domain.
Publication:
Imachi H, Nobu MK, Kato S, Takaki Y, Miyazaki M, Miyata M, Ogawara M, Saito Y, Sakai S, Tahara YO, et al. Promethearchaeum syntrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, obligately syntrophic archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Asgard' archaea, and proposal of the new archaeal phylum Promethearchaeota phyl. nov. and kingdom Promethearchaeati regn. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6435.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 9
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status [Archaea, not assigned to kingdom] artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis "Crenarchaeida" Luketa 2012 not validly published synonym (and no standing) "Euryarchaeida" Luketa 2012 not validly published synonym (and no standing) "Korarchaeota" Barns et al. 1996 not validly published synonym (and no standing) Methanobacteriati (Garrity and Holt 2023) Oren and Göker 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Nanobdellati Rinke et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Promethearchaeati Imachi et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Proteoarchaeota" Petitjean et al. 2014 not validly published synonym (and no standing) Thermoproteati Guy and Ettema 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Assigned by:
Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.
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