Name: "Euryarchaeota" Woese et al. 1990

Category: Kingdom

Proposed as: new kingdom

Etymology: Eur.y.arch.ae.o’ta. Gr. masc. adj. eurys, for the relatively broad spectrum of niches occupied by these organisms and their varied patterns of metabolism (broad, wide, spacious); Gr. adj. archaois, ancient, primitive; N.L. neut. pl. n. Euryarchaeota, from the Kingdom Euryarchaeota (Woese, Kandler and Wheelis 1990, 4579)

Original publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • Luketa (2012) assigned this kingdom to the domain "Archaebiota" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • Woese et al. (1990) assigned this kingdom to the domain "Archaea" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
  • Woese et al. (1990) assigned the order Methanobacteriales Balch and Wolfe 1981 to this kingdom. Publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
  • Woese et al. (1990) assigned the order Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981 to this kingdom. Publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
  • Woese et al. (1990) assigned the order Methanomicrobiales Balch and Wolfe 1981 to this kingdom. Publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
  • Woese et al. (1990) assigned the order Thermococcales Zillig 1988 to this kingdom. Publication: Woese CR, Kandler O, Wheelis ML. Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:4576-4579.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Euiyarchaeota"; "Euryachaeota"; "Euryanhaeota"; "Euryarachaeota"; "Euryarchaeaota"; "Euryarchaota"; "Euryarcheota"; "Euryparchaeota"; "Euyarchaeota".
  • A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.

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Record number: 29226