Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.34663

Names

Lokiarchaeum sp. corrig. None 2015, Lokiarchaeon sp. (sic) None 2015

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Lokiarchaeon (sic) Spang et al. 2015

Type Strain

representative organism

GC14_75^T

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Lokiarchaeota Spang et al. 2015
class Incertae sedis 505 Sousa et al. 2016
order Incertae sedis 506 Sousa et al. 2016
family Incertae sedis 507 Sousa et al. 2016
genus Lokiarchaeon (sic) Spang et al. 2015
species Lokiarchaeum sp. corrig. None 2015

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 species Lokiarchaeum sp. corrig. None 2015 and Lokiarchaeon sp. (sic) None 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.34663.

Source File

10.1601/tx.34663.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 17, 2019.

References

Spang A, Saw JH, Jørgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE, van Eijk R, Schleper C, Guy L, Ettema TJG. Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 2015; 521:173-179. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14447 [PubMed].