Translingual

Competing hypotheses about relationships of groups in Archaea, including Thaumarcheota

Proper noun

Thaumarchaeota

1. Chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidizers and may play important roles in biogeochemical cycles, such as the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle.
   1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea.
   2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota.

Synonyms

• (phylum): Thaumarchaea

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Cenarchaeales, Nitrosocaldales, Nitrosopumilales - orders
• (class): Cenarchaeales - order

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

English

Noun

thaumarchaeota ‎(plural thaumarchaeotas)

1. Any archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota