Archaea

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<==o ARCHAEA (arkeootit; archbacterians, archeans)

  |-- KORARCHAEOTA
  |--o CRENARCHAEOTA
  |  |--+-- Thermofilum
  |  |  `--+-- Pyrobaculum
  |  |     `-- Thermoproteus
  |  `--+--+-- Sulfolobus
  |     |  `--+-- Metallosphaera
  |     |     `-- Acidianus
  |     `--+--+-- Pyrolobus
  |        |  `--+-- Hyperthermus
  |        |     `-- Pyrodictium
  |        `--+--+-- Thermodiscus
  |           |  `-- Igneococcus
  |           `--+-- Staphylothermus
  |              `--+-- Desulfurococcus
  |                 `-- Thermosphaera
  `--o EURYARCHAEOTA
     |-- Thermococcales 
     |-- Thermoplasmales 
     |-- Archeoglobales 
     |-- Methanopyrales 
     |-- Methanococcales 
     |-- Methanobacteriales 
     `--+-- Methanomicrobiales  
        `-- Halobacteriales 

Reference(s):

--iNet: Tree of Life: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html