Name: "Crenarchaeota" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Subphylum

Proposed as: new subphylum

Etymology: Cren.arch.ae.o’ta Gr. kren, spring, fount; Gr. archae-, ancient; N.L. n. Crenarchaeota, ?

Type order: Thermoproteales Zillig and Stetter 1982

Original publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this subphylum to the phylum "Archaebacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned the class Crenarchaeota Cavalier-Smith 2002 to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • Cavalier-Smith (2006) assigned the order Thermoproteales Zillig and Stetter 1982 to this subphylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses. Biol Direct 2006; 1:19.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Creanarchaeota"; "Crenarahaeota"; "Crenoarchaeota".
  • This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Crenarchaeote".

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