Name: Thermoproteati Guy and Ettema 2024

Category: Kingdom

Proposed as: new kingdom

Etymology: Ther.mo.pro.te.a’ti. N.L. masc. n. Thermoproteus, type genus of the kingdom; N.L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ati, ending to denote a kingdom; N.L. fem. pl. n. Thermoproteati, the Thermoproteus kingdom

Type genus: Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982

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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Goeker and Oren (2024) assigned this kingdom to the domain Archaea Woese et al. 2024. 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.
  • 🧒 Goeker and Oren (2024) assigned the genus Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982 to this kingdom. 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.
  • 🧒 Goeker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Nitrososphaerota Brochier-Armanet et al. 2021 to this kingdom. 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.
  • 🧒 Goeker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum Thermoproteota Garrity and Holt 2021 to this kingdom. 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.
  • 🧒 Goeker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Korarchaeota" Ludwig and Klenk 2001 to this kingdom. 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.
  • 🧒 Goeker and Oren (2024) assigned the phylum "Candidatus Augarchaeota" corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011 to this kingdom. 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this kingdom has alternatively been placed in the kingdom "Crenarchaeota" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
  • 😴 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.
  • ✏ The authority of the taxon name (Guy and Ettema) deliberately differs from the authors of the publication (Göker and Oren).

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Record number: 43128