Candidatus Parvarchaeum

Candidatus Parvarchaeum is a genus of Archaea in the proposed phylum of Nanoarchaeota.^[2] There are two species in the genus, Candidatus Parvarchaeum acidiphilum and Candidatus Parvarchaeum paracidiphilum (synonym Candidatus Parvarchaeum acidophilus), both of which are currently uncultured.^[1]

Candidatus Parvarchaeum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Nanobdellati
Phylum:	Nanobdellota
Class:	Nanobdellia
Type species
"Ca. Parvarchaeum acidiphilum" Baker et al. 2010
Species[1]
"Ca. P. acidiphilum" "Ca. P. paracidiphilum" "Ca. P. tengchongense"

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[2]

120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[3][4][5]
"Ca. Parvarchaeum" "Ca. P. paracidiphilum" corrig. Baker et al. 2010 "Ca. P. acidiphilum" Baker et al. 2010 "Ca. P. tengchongense" Rao et al. 2023

See also

• List of Archaea genera