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Paraphyletic? taxon: Superphylum "Candidatus Asgard" Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 nom. pro-inval. (prokaryote)
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Concise hierarchy

(Domain) Archaea

Phylogeny

Possibly Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para) Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: 355 ("position of eukaryotes relative to the Asgard superphylum (either as a sister group or nested within)").

Original entries

ancient archaeal group (Group) Takai & Horikoshi 1999 Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: 354. [implicit]
Heimdallarchaeota (Phylum) Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 nom. pro-inval. Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: 355, fig. 1.
Lokiarchaeota (Phylum) corrig. Spang et al. 2015 nom. pro-inval. Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: 355, fig. 1.
Odinarchaeota (Phylum) Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al. 2017 nom. pro-inval. Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: 355, fig. 1.
Thorarchaeota (Phylum) corrig. Seitz et al. 2016 nom. pro-inval. Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: 355, fig. 1.

Current position

Archaea (Domain) Woese et al. 1990 stat. inval. Ref: K. Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka et al., 2017: fig. 1; http://sites.utexas.edu/baker-lab/2017/01/11/introducing-asgard-i-new-superphylum-of-archaea-that-are-related-to-eukaryotes/. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 4 Nov 2017 [5p]
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