Translingual

Proper noun

Crenarchaeota

1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea – many bacteria-like organisms, some of which are extremophiles.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota – Thermoprotei.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Algarchaeota (provisional), Korarchaeota (provisional), Thaumarchaeota (provisional), Thermoprotei - classes

References

• 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