Name: "Euryarchaeota" Cavalier-Smith 2002

Category: Subphylum

Proposed as: new subphylum

Etymology: Eur.y.arch.ae.o’ta Gr. eury-, broad; Gr. archae-, ancient, because they have a wide range of archaebacterial phenotypes; N.L. n. Euryarchaeota, from the Kingdom Euryarchaeota (Weese, Kandler and Wheelis 1990, 4579)

Type order: Methanococcales Balch and Wolfe 1981

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 superclass "Eurythermea" 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 (2002) assigned the superclass "Neobacteria" 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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Euryachaeota"; "Euryarachaeota"; "Euyarchaeota".
  • Euryarchaeota was previously known as "Euryarchaeota" Woese et al. 1990.

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