Taxonavigation

Prokaryota
Superregnum: Archaea
Regnum*: Archaea
Group: DPANN group

Phylum*: Nanoarchaeota

Candidati*: Aenigmarchaeota – Diapherotrites – Micrarchaeota – Nanohaloarchaeota – Pacearchaeota – Parvarchaeota – Woesearchaeota

Phylum*: Euryarchaeota

Classes: Archaeoglobi – Hadesarchaea – Halobacteria – Methanobacteria – Methanococci – Methanomicrobia – Methanopyri – Thermococci – Thermoplasmata

Group: TACK group

Phyla*: Crenarchaeota – Thaumarchaeota

Candidatus*: Korarchaeota

Group: Archaea incertae sedis

Candidati*: DUSEL4 group – NAG2 group – Bathyarchaeota – Geoarchaeota – Lokiarchaeota – Thorarchaeota

(*) The taxa 'Regnum' and 'Phylum' are in use, but not covered by the Rules of Bacteriologocal Code (1990 Revision) (sources: NCBI, Bacterio.net). The category 'Candidatus' is not covered by the Rules of Bacteriologocal Code (1990 Revision). A name included in the category Candidatus cannot be validly published, and it also cannot be designated sp. nov., gen. nov., etc. (source: Bacterio.net).

Name

Archaea Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990

Synonyms:

Archaebacteria Woese & Fox, 1977

Metabacteria Hori et al., 1987

Mendosicutes Gibbons & Murray, 1978

References

• Woese, C.R., Kandler, O. & Wheelis, M.L. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 87(12): 4576–4579. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576. Reference page. 
• Tree of Life Web Project. 1997. Archaea. Version 01 January 1997 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Brochier, C., Gribaldo, S., Zivanovic, Y., Confalonieri, F., & Forterre, P. 2005. Nanoarchaea: representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales? Genome Biology 6: R42. Full text
• Becerra, A., Delaye, L., Islas, S., & Lazcano, A. 2007. The very early stages of biological evolution and the nature of the last common ancestor of the three major cell domains. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38: 361–379.
• Brochier-Armanet, C., Boussau, B., Gribaldo, S., & Forterre, P. 2008. Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. Nature reviews microbiology 6: 245–252.
• Williams, T.A. et al. 2013. An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life. Nature, 504: 231–236. DOI: 10.1038/nature12779

Vernacular names

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See also

• Bacteria (classifications)

Alternative classifications