Crenarchaeota

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρήνη (krḗnē, “well, spring, fountain”) + ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “old”) + -otes (“quality”) (Specimens were originally isolated from geothermally heated sulfuric springs in Italy.)

Proper noun

Crenarchaeota

1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Archaea – many bacteria-like organisms, some of which are extremophiles.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Crenarchaeota – Thermoprotei.

Synonyms

• (phylum): Thermoproteota

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Algarchaeota (provisional), Korarchaeota (provisional), Thaumarchaeota (provisional), Thermoprotei - classes

References

• Crenarchaeota on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crenarchaeota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Crenarchaeota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Crenarchaeota at World Register of Marine Species
• Crenarchaeota at the Catalogue of Life 
• Crenarchaeota at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Crenarchaeota at Encyclopedia of Life
• 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248