Clade Archaea Woese et al. 1990
Synonym: Archaebacteria
Full reference: C. R. Woese, O. Kandler, and M. L. Wheelis. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 87:4576-4579
Parent taxon: Prokaryota according to M. A. Ruggiero et al. 2015
See also Margulis 1996, Taylor et al. 2008 and Woese et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Archaeoscillatoriopsis, Archaeotrichion, Bacteria, Eoleptonema, Namapoikia, Primaevifilum
Subtaxa: Crenarchaeota Euryarchaeota