Euryarchaeota

Translingual

Candidatus Aciduliprofundum boonei, a thermoacidophilic candidate species of incertae sedis

Etymology

eury- +‎ Archaea +‎ -ota, from Ancient Greek εὐρύς (eurús, “broad”) + ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “old”)

Proper noun

Euryarchaeota

1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea – many extremophile bacteria.

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Archaea - superkingdom

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Archeoglobi, Halobacteria, Methanobacteria, Methanococci, Methanomicrobia (provisional), Methanopyri, Nanohaloarchaea (provisional), Thermococci, Thermoplasmata - classes

References

• Euryarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euryarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Euryarchaeota at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Euryarchaeota at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Five Kingdoms (Margulis & Schwartz) →ISBN
• 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