Translingual

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

• Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth (Margulis & Schwartz) ISBN 0-8050-7252-7
• 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521