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Paraphyletic taxon:
Domain "
Archaea
"
Woese
et al.
1990 stat. inval.
(prokaryote)
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Entity:
neomura ([unranked])
..Archaea (Domain)
..[archaebacteria]
..Eukaryota (Domain) - eukaryotes
..[Archaea] (Domain)
....[Asgard] (Candidate superphylum)
....Crenarchaeota (Phylum)
....[Crenarchaeota] (Kingdom)
....[DPANN] (Superphylum)
....[Euryarchaeota] (Phylum)
....Euryarchaeota (Phylum)
....[Euryarchaeota] (Kingdom)
....[Hydrothermarchaeota] (Candidate phylum)
....[TACK] (Superphylum)
....Z7ME43 (Candidate phylum)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C.R. Woese
et al.
, 1990, stat. praeinit.
Original name, rank & spelling
:
Woese, C.R., Kandler, O. & Wheelis, M.L. 1990.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
87
: 4579.
Description/Diagnosis in English
:
loc. cit.
Attributes
Pre-starting-point rank (stat. inval.[: praeinit.]) [ICNP, 2023: p. 1, Rules 5B, 8 (domain/kingdom, <2024)]
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present.
Syst. Nat. 2000
: 29 May 2026.
Variants
Validly published name
:
Archaea
(Domain)
Woese
et al.
2024
Ref:
M. Göker & A. Oren, 2024
: 2; CoL(12 Nov 2025).
[
new
] [implicit]
Different rank
:
Archaea
(Superkingdom)
Woese
et al.
1990
Different rank
:
Archaea
(Kingdom)
Woese
et al.
1990
Different rank
:
Archaea
(Subkingdom)
Woese
et al.
1990
Different rank
:
Archaebacteria
(Suprakingdom)
Different rank
:
Archaebacteria
(Infrakingdom)
(Woese and Fox 1977) Cavalier-Smith 1998
Different rank
:
Archaebacteria
(Phylum)
Different rank
:
Archaebacteriobionta
(Kingdom)
Former unranked name
:
Archaea
([unranked])
Woese
et al.
1990
Homonyms
Senior homonym (allowed)
:
†
Archaea
(Genus)
Koch & Berendt, 1854
Ref:
S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present
: 2 Apr 2022.
Synonyms
Synonymous name
:
Mendosicutes
(Phylum)
Gibbons and Murray 1978
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Archaebacteria
(Domain)
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Archaebacteria
(Subdomain)
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Archaebacteria
(Division)
Cavalier-Smith 2002
Synonymous name (objective)
:
Mendosicutes
(Division)
Murray 1984
Synonymous name (pro parte)
:
prokaryotes
([unranked])
In (pro parte)
:
Prokarya
(Superkingdom)
In (pro parte)
:
Prokaryota
(Domain)
Vernacular name
:
archaebacteria
([unranked])
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Last updated:
28 Aug 2026