Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.90

Names

Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001, Methanobacteriota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2001

Taxonomic Rank

phylum

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
domain	Archaea Woese et al. 1990

Members

class	Archaeobacteria Murray 1988
class	Archaeoglobi Garrity and Holt 2002
class	Halobacteria (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Grant et al. 2002 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
class	Halomebacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002
class	Incertae sedis 420 Laso-Pérez et al. 2016
class	Incertae sedis 556 Martin-Cuadrado et al. 2015
class	Methanobacteria (Murray 1988) Boone 2002
class	Methanococci Boone 2002
class	Methanofastidiosa (sic) Nobu et al. 2016
class	Methanomicrobia Garrity et al. 2003
class	Methanonatronarchaeia Sorokin et al. 2018
class	Methanopyri Garrity and Holt 2002
class	Methanothermea Cavalier-Smith 2002
class	Protoarchaea Cavalier-Smith 2002
class	Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002
class	Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002

Type Status

Names of taxa above the rank of class or below the rank of subspecies are not covered by the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore cannot serve as nomenclatural types.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this phylum within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001 and Methanobacteriota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.90.

Source File

10.1601/tx.90.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 19, 2021.

References

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