Crenarchaeota
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κρήνη (krḗnē, “well, spring, fountain”) + Archaea + -ota. Specimens were originally isolated from geothermally heated sulfuric springs in Italy.
Proper noun
[edit]Crenarchaeota
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea – many bacteria-like organisms, some of which are extremophiles.
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota – Thermoprotei.
Synonyms
[edit]- (phylum): Thermoproteota
Hypernyms
[edit]- (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Archaea - kingdom
Hyponyms
[edit]- (phylum): Algarchaeota (provisional), Korarchaeota (provisional), Thaumarchaeota (provisional), Thermoprotei - classes
References
[edit]- Crenarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Crenarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Crenarchaeota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Crenarchaeota at World Register of Marine Species
- Crenarchaeota at the Catalogue of Life
- Crenarchaeota at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI