Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32301

Name

Korarchaeota Barns et al. 1996

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Archaea Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Incertae sedis 295 Barns et al. 1996
class	Incertae sedis 590 McKay et al. 2019

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this phylum within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Korarchaeota Barns et al. 1996

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the phylum Korarchaeota Barns et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32301.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32301.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 13, 2020.

References

McKay LJ, Dlakić M, Fields MW, Delmont TO, Eren AM, Jay ZJ, Klingelsmith KB, Rusch DB, Inskeep WP. Co-occurring genomic capacity for anaerobic methane and dissimilatory sulfur metabolisms discovered in the Korarchaeota. Nat Microbiol 2019; 4:614-622. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0362-4 [PubMed].
Barns SM, Delwiche CF, Palmer JD, Pace NR. Perspectives on archaeal diversity, thermophily and monophyly from environmental rRNA sequences. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:9188-9193. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.17.9188 [PubMed].