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Thermoprotei
Thermoprotei
Translingual
Proper noun
Thermoprotei
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota.
Hypernyms
- (class): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Archaea - superkingdom; Crenarchaeota - phylum
Hyponyms
- (class): Acidilobales, Desulfurococcales, Fervidicoccales, Sulfolobales, Thermoproteales - orders
Coordinate terms
- (class): Algarchaeota, Korarchaeota, Thaumarchaeota - classes (provisional)
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