Archaea

Halobacterium sp.

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 et al., 1990

Synonyms:

Archaebacteria Woese & Fox, 1977

Metabacteria Hori et al., 1987

Mendosicutes Gibbons & Murray, 1978

References

• Woese, C., Kandler, O., & Wheelis, M. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87 (12): 4576–4579. PMID 2112744 .
• 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

Links

• Bacterological Code (Revision 1990)
• NCBI Taxonomy
• Bacterio.net
• Microbial Genome Database
• European Nucleotide Archive

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Archaebakterie
العربية: عتائق
asturianu: Archaea
azərbaycanca: Arxeya
Bahasa Indonesia: Archaea
Bahasa Melayu: Arkea
বাংলা: আর্কিয়া
Bân-lâm-gú: Kó͘-seng-khún
беларуская: Археі
bosanski: Archaea
български: Археи
català: Arqueobacteri
čeština: Archea
Cymraeg: Archaea
dansk: Archaea
Deutsch: Archaeen
eesti: Arhed, Arhebakterid, Ürgid
Ελληνικά: Αρχαία, Αρχαιοβακτήρια
English: Archaea
español: Archaea
Esperanto: Arkioj
euskara: Arkeobakterio
فارسی: باستانیان
français: archées
Gaeilge: Aircéach
한국어: 고세균
հայերեն: Նախակենդանիներ
हिन्दी: आर्किया
hrvatski: Archaea
íslenska: Forngerlar
italiano: Archaea
עברית: חיידקים קדומים
Kapampangan: Archaea
Kiswahili: Archaea
Latina: Archaea
Lëtzebuergesch: Archaeën
lietuvių: Archėja
magyar: Archeák
македонски: Археи
مازِرونی: قدیمی‎ئون
Nederlands: Archaea
नेपाल भाषा: आर्केया
日本語: 古細菌
Nordfriisk: Uurbakteerien
norsk: Arkebakterier
norsk nynorsk: Arkar
occitan: Archaea
ភាសាខ្មែរ: បុរាណណូ
Plattdüütsch: Archaeen
polski: Archeony
português: Archaea
Runa Simi: Ñawpa añaki
русский: Археи
саха тыла: Архей
slovenčina: Archaea
slovenščina: Arheje
srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Arheja
suomi: Arkkieliöt
svenska: Arkéer
Tagalog: Archaea
தமிழ்: ஆர்க்கீயா
ไทย: อาร์เคีย
Tiếng Việt: Vi khuẩn cổ
Türkçe: Arkea
українська: Археї
Winaray: Archaea
中文: 古菌

For more multimedia, look at Archaea on Wikimedia Commons.

Alternative classifications

See also: Bacteria

• Bacteria (classifications)

Ruggiero et al. (2015)

Ruggiero, M.A., Gordon, D.P., Orrell, T.M., Bailly, N., Bourgoin, T., Brusca, R.C., Cavalier-Smith, T., Guiry, M. D. & Kirk, P. M. (2015). A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248, [1].

• Superkingdom Prokaryota
  • Kingdom Archaea [= Archaebacteria]
    • Phylum Crenarchaeota
      • Class “Aigarchaeota”
        • Order N.N. ("Candidatus Caldiarchaeum")
      • Class “Korarchaeota”
        • Order N.N. ("Candidatus Korarchaeum")
      • Class “Thaumarchaeota”
        • Order Cenarchaeales
      • Class Thermoprotei [= Crenarchaeota]
        • Order Acidilobales
        • Order Desulfurococcales
        • Order Fervidicoccales
        • Order Sulfolobales
        • Order Thermoproteales
    • Phylum Euryarchaeota
      • Class Archaeoglobi
        • Order Archaeoglobales
      • Class Halobacteria
        • Order Halobacteriales
      • Class Methanobacteria
        • Order Methanobacteriales
      • Class Methanococci
        • Order Methanococcales
      • Class “Methanomicrobia”
        • Order N.N. (Methanocalculus)
        • Order Methanocellales
        • Order Methanomicrobiales
        • Order Methanosarcinales
        • Class Methanopyri
        • Order Methanopyrales
      • Class “Nanohaloarchaea”
        • Order N.N. (e.g., "Candidatus Nanosalinarum")
      • Class Thermococci
        • Order Thermococcales
      • Class Thermoplasmata
        • Order Thermoplasmatales
  • Kingdom Bacteria [= Eubacteria]
• Superkingdom Eukaryota