BioConcepts

ArchaeaArchaea (ger.)

• A taxon comprising the archaebacteria. (OED 2002)
  category bacterium see also Bacteria Eucarya

  1990

  Life on this planet would then be seen as comprising three domains, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eucarya, each containing two or more kingdoms.

  Woese, C.R., Kandler, O. & Wheelis, M.L. (1990). Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87, 4576-4579: 4576.