Nanoarchaeota

Nanoarchaeota
Nanoarcheotum Nanopusillus acidilobi attached to Acidilobus.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Archaea
Superphylum: DPANN
Huber et al. 2002
Phylum: Nanoarchaeota
Huber et al. 2002
Order
  • "Jingweiarchaeales"
  • "Nanoarchaeales"
  • "Pacearchaeales"
  • "Parvarchaeales"
  • "Tiddalikarchaeales"
  • "Woesearchaeales"
Synonyms
  • "Pacearchaeota" Castelle et al. 2015
  • "Parvarchaeota" Rinke et al. 2013
  • "Woesearchaeota" Castelle et al. 2015

Nanoarchaeota (Greek, "dwarf or tiny ancient one") is a proposed phylum (Candidatus Nanoarchaeota) in the domain Archaea[1] that currently has only one representative, Nanoarchaeum equitans, which was discovered in a submarine hydrothermal vent and first described in 2002.[2]

  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Nanoarchaeota. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Huber-2002 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).