Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14436

Name

Protoarchaea Cavalier-Smith 2002

Taxonomic Rank

class

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
phylum	Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001

Members

order	Thermococcales Zillig et al. 1988

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this class 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
class Protoarchaea Cavalier-Smith 2002

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 class Protoarchaea Cavalier-Smith 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14436.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14436.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 18, 2017.

References

Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-1-7 [PubMed].
Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Names at the rank of class, subclass and order, their typification and current status: Supplementary information to Opinion 79. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3599-3602. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.069310-0 [PubMed].