HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE KINGDOM THERMOTOGAE AND ITS SINGLE PHYLUM THERMOTOGOBACTERIA (BOTH NAMES DERIVED FROM MARGULIS AND SCHWARTZ 1998)

EUBACTERIA> PROTEOBACTERIAE> THERMOTOGAE> THERMOBACTERIA

This system follows Margulis and Schwartz (1998) in that the taxa are united within one phylum. However, the framework of the system comes from Garrity et al. (2001 and 2003).

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