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, 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

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

For more multimedia, look at Archaea on Wikimedia Commons.

See also

• Bacteria (classifications)

Alternative classifications

Woese (1990)

3-Domain System of Carl Woese

• Terrabiota
  • non-cellular lifeforms
  • Cytota
    • LUCA
      • Domain Bacteria
        • Neomura
          • Domain Archaea
          • Domain Eukaryota

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