The "Aigarchaeota" are a proposed
archaea
Archaea ( ; singular archaeon ) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaeba ...
l phylum of which the main representative is ''
Caldiarchaeum subterraneum''.
[.] It is not yet clear if this represents a new phylum or a and order of the
Nitrososphaerota, since the genome of ''Caldiarchaeum subterraneum'' encodes several Nitrososphaerota-like features. The name "''Aigarchaeota''" comes from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
, ''avgí'', meaning "dawn" or "aurora", for the intermediate features of hyperthermophilic and mesophilic life during the evolution of its lineage.
Taxonomy
* Genus "''Candidatus''
Caldarchaeum"
corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011
** "''Ca.'' C. subterraneum"
corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011
* Genus "''Candidatus''
Calditenuis"
Beam et al. 2016
** "''Ca.'' C. aerorheumensis"
Beam et al. 2016
See also
*
List of Archaea genera
This article lists the genera of the Archaea. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Phylogeny
National Center for ...
References
Further reading
*
*
*
Archaea phyla
{{Archaea-stub