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Australlarchaeum erebusii sp. nov.

Submitted by Herbold, Craig William

Genus Australarchaeum

Etymology
[Aus.tral.ar.chae'um] L. masc. adj. australis, Southern; N.L. neut. n. archaeum, archaeum, ancient one, archaeon; N.L. neut. n. Australarchaeum, an archaeon from the south
Nomenclatural type
Species Australarchaeum erebusenseTs
Description
The type of the genus is an Archaeon found only in soils heated by volcanic activity (65 degree C) on Mt. Erebus in Antarctica. Analysis of metabolic pathways indicates the presence of fatty acid oxidation, amino acid degradation and an aerobic lifestyle. There are indications that either the same species or another species of the same genus can be found on Mt. Melbourne and Mt. Rittmann, both also in Antarctica. GTDB-Tk indicates that this genome represented a novel Order of Nitrososphaeria.  
Classification
Incertae sedis (Archaea) » Australarchaeum
References
Effective publication: Herbold et al., 2024 [1]
Registry URL
https://seqco.de/i:49006

Species Australarchaeum erebusenseTs

Etymology
[e.re.bu.sen'se] N.L. neut. adj. erebusense, of Erebus, referring to Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
Nomenclatural type
NCBI Assembly: GCA_040290255.1 Ts
Description
Archaeon found only in soils heated by volcanic activity (65 degree C) on Mt. Erebus in Antarctica. Very deep branching and novel lineage of Nitrososphaeria. Encodes aa3-type (low-affinity) cytochrome C-oxidases.

Classification
Incertae sedis (Archaea) » Australarchaeum » Australarchaeum erebusenseTs
References
Effective publication: Herbold et al., 2024 [1]
Registry URL
https://seqco.de/i:24045

References

  1. Herbold et al. (2024). Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium elucidated through metagenomics. Environmental Microbiome. DOI:10.1186/s40793-024-00655-5

Register List Certificate of Validation

On behalf of the Committee on the Systematics of Prokaryotes Described from Sequence Data (SeqCode Committee), we hereby certify that the Register List seqco.de/r:v4ac-osb submitted by Herbold, Craig William and including 2 new names has been successfully validated.


Date of Priority: 2025-01-07 10:26 UTC
DOI: 10.57973/seqcode.r:v4ac-osb