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{{Image|Halobacteria.jpg|''[[Halobacterium]]'' sp.}}

=={{int:Taxonavigation}}==
{{Archaea}}
Regnum*: [[Archaea]] <br>
Group: [[DPANN group]] <br>
: Phylum*: [[Nanoarchaeota]]
: Candidati*: Aenigmarchaeota&nbsp;– Diapherotrites&nbsp;– Micrarchaeota&nbsp;– Nanohaloarchaeota&nbsp;– Pacearchaeota&nbsp;– Parvarchaeota&nbsp;– Woesearchaeota

Phylum*: [[Euryarchaeota]]
: Classes: [[Archaeoglobi]]&nbsp;– [[Hadesarchaea]]&nbsp;– [[Halobacteria]]&nbsp;– [[Methanobacteria]]&nbsp;– [[Methanococci]]&nbsp;– [[Methanomicrobia]]&nbsp;– [[Methanopyri]]&nbsp;– [[Thermococci]]&nbsp;– [[Thermoplasmata]]

Group: [[TACK group]] <br>
: Phyla*: [[Crenarchaeota]]&nbsp;– [[Thaumarchaeota]]
: Candidatus*: [[Korarchaeota]]

Group: [[Archaea incertae sedis]]
: Candidati*: DUSEL4 group&nbsp;– NAG2 group&nbsp;– Bathyarchaeota&nbsp;– Geoarchaeota&nbsp;– Lokiarchaeota&nbsp;– Thorarchaeota

(*) <small>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).</small>

=={{int:Name}}==
Archaea {{a|Carl Richard Woese|Woese}}, {{a|Otto Kandler|Kandler}} & {{a|Mark L. Wheelis|Wheelis}}, 1990

{{int:Synonyms}}:
: Archaebacteria {{aut|Woese & Fox}}, 1977
: Metabacteria {{aut|Hori}} ''et al.'', 1987
: Mendosicutes {{aut|Gibbons & Murray}}, 1978

=={{int:References}}==
{{Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990}}
* Tree of Life Web Project. 1997. [http://tolweb.org/Archaea/4/1997.01.01 Archaea. Version 01 January 1997 (temporary)] in [http://tolweb.org/ The Tree of Life Web Project]
* {{aut|Brochier, C.}}, {{aut|Gribaldo, S.}}, {{aut|Zivanovic, Y.}}, {{aut|Confalonieri, F.}}, & {{aut|Forterre, P.}} 2005. ''Nanoarchaea'': representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales? ''Genome Biology'' 6: R42. [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1175954&blobtype=pdf Full text]
* {{aut|Becerra, A.}}, {{aut|Delaye, L.}}, {{aut|Islas, S.}}, & {{aut|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.
* {{aut|Brochier-Armanet, C.}}, {{aut|Boussau, B.}}, {{aut|Gribaldo, S.}}, & {{aut|Forterre, P.}} 2008. Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota. ''Nature reviews microbiology'' 6: 245–252.
* {{aut|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}}

==={{int:Links}}===
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8808/ Bacterological Code (Revision 1990)]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=2157&lvl=5&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy]
* [http://www.bacterio.net/-classifphyla.html#Archaea Bacterio.net]
* [http://mbgd.genome.ad.jp/ Microbial Genome Database]
* [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/genomes/archaea.html European Nucleotide Archive]

=={{int:Vernacular names}}==
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== {{int:See also}} ==
* [[Bacteria (classifications)]]

== {{Int Classification|s+Alternative}} ==
=== Woese (1990) ===
3-Domain System of [[Carl Richard Woese|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, [http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248].

* 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]]

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